Consulting fish: how do you feel about fractional staffing? Starting at ZS Associates soon and worried it’ll be harder to focus on/keep track of multiple projects at once than one at a time.

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First off go heels!

Second, fractional staffing certainly has its ups and downs. You get a wider variety of projects and it can be nice to focus on another project if you dislike one. The staffers do a pretty good job of keeping your billables 40-50 hrs/week. You’ll definitely learn time management and how to communicate to project managers your commitments.

Cons are getting into situations where a project that says 10 hrs/week but actually take 20, making your actual billables higher. These are definitely not ideal and they advocate you speak up but sometimes can just be a crappy few weeks. It can also work in the reverse role though! A 20 hr/week really only taking 10. Secondly, often projects can run longer than their initial timeline. ZS has a way to mitigate it by allowing you to edit foreseeable hours/project, but you have to be diligent about this ahead of time so your staffer knows not to staff you.


Overall, I’ve worked at 2 fractional staffing firms and ZS does it 1,000 times better. As far as consulting goes, I think they really do a good job of keeping you happy. Good luck!

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Thank you so much this really clears things up

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