Curious how many billable/non-billable hours (not including PTO) most tax partners work each year? Top 20 firm, feel like each year it keeps getting higher and higher due to not having enough staff, when is enough a enough and how do you lower the hours?

Anyone taken a 3week vacation before?

Attending a company holiday party where they're doing a white elephant gift exchange. I barely know anyone except through emails and IMs given that most of us WFH. Fun but office appropriate gift ideas $30 or under?

Unlimited PTO is not working for me.
Flexibility is great but I need a max limit of days to make sure I’m safe. Anyone having the same issues?

First year here. Do associates get fired for not meeting the billable requirements?

Did anyone not meet their billable hours requirement during their first year of employment? If so, how did your firm react? 😬

Any book recommendations for the summer vacation season? What's your favorite book over the last year?

When lateraling to another defense firm, is it necessary to show billable hours at current firm?

Since we returned to office in October, is it appropriate to give holiday gifts to team members?

How does your firm measure utilization? I work for a small boutique that defines it as utilization = number of billable hours/2,080 and full bonus payout occurs at 80% plus.

Anyone wanna pay for my vacation to Disney world?

I just started a new job 2 months ago, benefits and PTO don’t start until 90 days in so I still have a month before I can take off any time, and today found out my company doesn’t offer paid maternity leave.
I’m really struggling handling the symptoms and maintaining my full time job. Thinking about looking for a part time job to have more time to myself through the pregnancy since I won’t be getting a paid leave anyways, but lost on where to start looking. Any recommendations?

What holiday party did you get?
Anyone living close to an office, got a holiday party with food and drinks, and the venue started open for them until around midnight. Our remote workers got a one hour party w a DJ and trivia that let you win gift cards. Yeah it was nice to win a gift card but I found it lame in comparison to hanging out with my team in real life.

Anyone working as a 2 years + lawyer for Fragomen in Canada can share their salaries and working advantages? (holidays, billable hours etc). Got an interview coming up and want to make sure not to under-sale my profile!

What are firm’s known billable requirements? Is there a ramp up period?

Can I use the floating holiday after 9/30 or is it gone?

Went from a big firm to work for a smaller firm. The people in the smaller firm are protective of their work and are good by their work too. I no longer feel chaos or stress. I am treated with respect and my schedule is more normal. I am even working more billable hours than before, but it feels like a seamless experience. I don’t work then past 5pm or anything out of the ordinary for this time of the year. I am so grateful!

It’s hard to trust the partners/leadership when they want us to return to office as being better when we increase offshoring? Also, the pressure on billable hours when all that really matters is how much our fixed labor costs vs. how much we can bill (which is usually fixed fee or at least a range) and the fixed labor costs of offshoring is significantly cheaper so the hours don’t matter. Am I mistaken by this viewpoint?

Partners with kids and a working spouse, how do you manage? Is it realistic for both people in the relationship to work full time long term? How do you keep marriage going and career progressing?

Hoping for a bump at next review. Should I mention it now? Will either kick epic ass or fail massively in the next few months.

Top NYC communications marketing agency - EP role onsite for 6-8 weeks. Day rate and hours per day? Any ot or other considerations?

One key selling point, as they are trying to offer is the opportunity to work one day a week to use for things like training, acquiring certifications or building applications that you are interested in.

This sounds amazing. I don't get that at my current job. So, is this too good to be true? I would like your opinion on this.

Attending a company holiday party where they're doing a white elephant gift exchange. I barely know anyone except through emails and IMs given that most of us WFH. Fun but office appropriate gift ideas $30 or under?

Anyone in this bowl with AlixPartners? Would like to get a feel of their culture, treatment of employees, handling of GC etc.
Thanks for any insights. My DM is open if you'd prefer to chat 1-o-1.

Need like for completing profile. Thanks.

What should be the expected salary of 7.6 yrs experienced Java, Spring boot and Cloud(Gcp/AWS) resource in current market scenario?
Current salary : 13 LPA Fixed

Looking for feedback, I'm updating my resume and I'm wondering at what point should I start removing past work experience. I've heard anything older than 10 years should go?

I am what I like to call an early career marketing profession. My experience is limited (some internships, temp jobs). I’m applying for full time marketing jobs. Any advice?

Plus what is the starting salary for entry levels associate under group m like xaxis, mindshare,etc

Any tips on how to deal with this…my entire team was let go today (was 5, now just me). We functioned as the Marketing team for 4 brands and primarily focused on product launches and sustaining social media content. My plan moving forward is to only focus on the top revenue driving product launches for now and say “no” to basically everything else. Would love to hear from anyone who has been in a similar situation and can offer some advice.

How much can i expect from delloitte usi/ey gds
With 4 years of exp and offer in hand 14.5 fixed +var
Tech : ORACLE BI
C CTC - 9LPA

Does ey gds lay off?

Can someone please refer me to the Integration and Separation team in Accenture please