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What are partner retirement packages like??
What are raise amounts or percentages per year?
Who is going to Discover in December?
Wiley or Gleim which one is better?
So excited to be putting in my notice next week!
Where are the Booz Allen people at?
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What perks are you seeing cut at EY? Holiday party? This is the first year in 5 years they allowed is to bring a guest. What well being perk are you referring to? The well being fund is still 1k same as last several years.
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Not B4 here, but we plan events and half the RSVPs don’t show. We always expect some no shows but the trend is increasing. It’s a huge waste of $$ and time and unfortunately impacts those who do show up. Do I think companies would still be adjusting costs anyway? Yes. But it’s made easier when the culture is eroding on both sides.
If the attendance is trending downward I would think people are less interested in coming due to their experience at the event.
Who even cares about those perks? If we’re gonna complain about how things are going currently at the big 4, these issues are so far down the list in terms of importance to me that I’ve never given it any thought.
Well you can’t just complain about the work hours everyday
Might as well complain about other stuff lol
Everyone already knows the work hours need to change
But they haven’t
So might as well push for more fun events
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If you want to expand it outside of B4. Crowe has had this as well. HH budgets are nonexistent. Holiday parties were canceled this past year.
I feel like this is the direction the entire working world is going. Come to the office and fuck off otherwise.
Same at KPMG
Same here. It goes both ways though why should firms invest in those social events if people dont even want to go. More junior folks want to just stay home so why wouldnt you try to save costs? COVID and the proliferation or remote work has commoditized the job and its just harder to enstill a teaming culture now.
I think it’s fine if the funds are being redirected in another beneficial way, but just seems like they’re just cost cutting.
It’s funny. Most of my teams don’t want happy hours when I offer, or they’ll just come for one drink and leave. We also plan nice team events, holiday parties, etc. and no one shows. Things are certainly different post-Covid
What kind of activities are we talking about?
In my opinion the execution of most events is why people don't attend.
Before the pandemic and before I moved offices, our team would do fun stuff. Like indoor skydiving, breakout rooms, top golf, restaurants that also have a 100+ board games for you to play while you eat, movies theaters that severe legit food to the table at your seat, bring your favorite Christmas cookies night and other stuff I'm not thinking of right now.
People came to that stuff. When we got lazy there was a lot more top golf and that got old so less people started coming when we didi that.
Our company replaced the holiday party by giving everyone $500 net bonus. I love where I work and the benefits are sufficient. They even provided a breakdown of cost to company outside of compensation
Same feeling
Chief
Need to get you a pe influx
lol can confirm it doesn’t improve perks
Same
You can argue this is the case for most finance, accounting, consulting, etc firms. The only ones who really have anything are front office type orgs (banking, traders, hedge funds). And I’ve heard even they have slowing it down.
the economy is cyclical- meaning when the employer has the upper hand - perks are cut and when the employees have the upper hand - the perks are back. Right now the employer has the upper hand as they can use India and other foreign workers to save a lot of money and are not so desperate for employees. Over 40 years in the business- definitely have seen this many times. Not sure if it will ever swing back to the employees.
Gotta get out while you are ahead
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