Does any of your firm require you to have 45 billable hours per week in June or July?

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Hitting about 40 charge and 50 total lately due to inefficiencies of WFH and the 5 weekly meetings I seem to end up having. In the summer I generally have alot more admin time just because of all the shit I put off during busy season.

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I hit 5 hr a week

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Same, but grp is not the same as service line. Tax is service line MTS is group

Not required but I’m in tax so naturally I’m hitting that. I feel like it’d be a big f u to do that across the board though, as frequently different teams have different busy seasons.

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Not sure its required, but ive never had less than that since i have been given real work (been at the firm ~6 months). Are u actually having less than 45 chargeable hrs?

I usually have 35 chargeable hours if it’s a slow week. Not totally unreasonable for off-season.

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