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I recently landed a role at McKinsey in the Boston office. I wanted to know from others experience, how much flexibility the firm offers for jummah. This is super important to me and I don't want to seem like the guy that's always slacking on Fridays. I'm already willing to work extra time after hours to make up for this. Obviously I don't plan on going to jummah during travel to client sites. But for the times I'm in office, how would I navigate this?

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mA congrats!

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Most of great MBB offices in my area WFH on Friday or you are traveling back from client site.

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Firm doesn't offer flexibility for Jummah specifically - it would be 'negotiated' at a team level, but it should be ok to set lifestyle red lines. Plenty of people carve out hard blocks for gym and such - you should be comfortable doing the same for something more important like this.

Just be prepared to have to fight for it with particularly neurotic EMs.

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Been working for 18 years 5 firms and 25+ clients, so far clients/employers never said no to me during Jummah whether I’m a junior or the most senior person in the team. Just relay the message in advance to your EM that you need to step out for an hour on Friday etc and leave it at that. Make sure you block your McKinsey and client side calendar. And congrats on getting into McKinsey. Remb it’s only people at the end.

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You’ll be fine. No travel on Friday so you will be either WFH or local office. There are still meetings with teams and clients which you can flag in advance to your EM as a recurring time block - don’t need to specify for what unless you want to. For me it helps to have the option of multiple jummah time slots in case I miss the first prayer or two.

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