Benchmarking: what firms have holiday shutdowns (e.g., Christmas break, July 4th, etc) and do these count against personal PTO?

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Wait, we get the Thursday of Memorial Day off too?

Roland Berger has 2 weeks of winter shutdown and extended out 4th of July break to 4 days + the weekend

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Accenture has nothing and they force us to take PTO if our clients have shutdowns and we don’t have BD work to do

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I had that happen my first year A2, and didn’t even know that was required. This year I got involved in some BD around the holidays because I knew my client was shut down and didn’t want to burn all my PTO. That’s the best way to make the best out of a non ideal situation

Protiviti just added 3 soft close Fridays ahead of Monday off weekends and 2 weeks at year end. You are not required to take time of just strongly encouraged if benched.

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KPMG “kindly” reduced our PTO by 5 days for a firm shut down on week of July 4. We also close during the Holidays.

How much personal PTO do you get?

Bain requires 3 days at Christmas and it comes from person PTO.

How much personal PTO do you get?

Pwc does as well

Shutdowns lol

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