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It's an impossible double standard. Any time I see this trend developing on an engagement, I push to get a second, non-billable code set up so we at least get utilization credit. Eating hours is bullshit. Try to put the ownership back on the firm since they harp about not eating hours and then expect you to do it but pretend like you're not.
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Firms should count PTO for utilization.
@OP I just flat out ask the lead (director usually) and explain the position. It doesn't work every time. It usually doesn't, actually. But, it's worth a shot. Nobody can fault you for trying to protect your utilization stats. Especially considering people are losing their fucking jobs over it.
You should charge every single hour you work... Whether the additional hours get billed to your client or not is up to the SOW or partner, but your utilization % should reflect worked hours with a second code if you're not billing it out. It's actually against firm policy to hide hours. Ask your engagement director or partner (or manager if that's more easily approachable) for a second WBS code to put the hours beyond what you're billing and be sure to confirm that it will be reflected in utilization. Very poor leadership for whoever is telling you to hide hours.. It's actually a fire able offense (them telling you to do that).. And no I'm not HR lol
This is an opportunity to discuss scope with your team / client and in the long run don't work for people asking u to do it.
Yeah y'all have it rough. The fact that your utilization targets are so high, PTO counts against it, AND you bill 40/week... Pour one out
And of course the second shift from 5-9 does not count towards utilization.
Shit I charge what I work
How do you go about asking for another code? Sometimes they let us use pd codes, but those don't help with utilization
All about those ghost hours
@P4 If you report your engagement for being subject to a contractual obligation which requires that you bill only 40 hours, you're gonna have a bad time.
We are supposed to be building 9 hour day / 45 hour work weeks as standard in our pricing models now. It will get kicked back from Finance once they see the eFit if it is not.
@D1 KPMG does, they remove it from our denominator
Should have worked for kpmg
Let's be honest. Every firm has its pluses and minuses. They all suck exceedingly well at something.
Report eating hours, HR will fuck shit up. They don't play with that
It's completely anonymous, so...
We dont do that in finance.
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