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If its PwC india Kolkata, you have to call ppl Sir, Dada, Didi etc even in the formal mails to clients. You may choose not to follow if you are confident enough.
I call someone in my office dada even though he is practically elder than what my uncle would have been today. Feels weird AF.
I usually call everyone by their name, ive seen everyone calling partner or director by sir/maam which i don’t follow and support
Depends on the practice you're in.
If its G&PS, yes you ll use "Sir". It's pretty common with government clients.
Not in other practices.
Don't compare and confuse Big4 with Infy TCS of the world. We are different based on the practice you work with.
No. There is no sir culture i have noticed atleast in BLR, Chennai.
But the Da, di suffix is used a lot in kolkata. I personally address my seniors in kolkata by da, di.
Its a cultural thing, i dont see why it persists.
For clients, and other partners, we use Sir quite a bit, on formal communication
The responses are pretty worrisome for me. Will these seniors or client feel disrespected if I just call them with their name. I remember my first day of career with Accenture 9 years back, the first thing our batch did was to greet the trainer with Good morning Sir, and he said "Never ever call anyone from your workplace Sir or Madam, it is unprofessional, use either firstname or lastname."
From then I have just used names of other people irrespective of their age, gender, seniority or position.