Does impact day count against utilisation? 😳

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I mean it doesn't count for it...And you can still do billable work that day if you want. But no the firm isn't going to give you utilization for participating

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It does in deloitte , any time spent doing non client work , hurts you (unless you have 8 hours of client work already done for that day , and this is extra hours)

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Wow that's insane

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@pwc1 - no doubt it is

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@PwC1 it does here (indirectly) because the denominator is fixed

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All that matters is billable hours over available hours. Your available hours are 2080 ( barring LOA, etc) and you know you billable. Do the math. Why is this so hard?

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Any activity that is not client work (except stuff that gives you adjusted utilization specifically) , hurts your utilization . Be it impact day , pto or anything other activity that yon do in place of client work

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PTO doesn't impact utilization

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At PwC even sick time doesn't count against utilization, as well as PTO

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2080 standard hours as the denominator. Numerator is any billable hours or hours that count as adjusted.

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@D3 yup. At 45/week and 12 holidays/year that means to maintain 95/90/85% you can have 28/40/51 days of PTO/beach time -- theoretically enough to use all your PTO but much less common in reality

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Sorry, PWC. You are misinformed. PTO most certainly affects utilization.

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My target is 85% which seems very reasonable. I always take all of my PTO.

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The point D7 is that available hours are not deducted when you go on PTO

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No top firm deducts PTO from available hours. Why would they?

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Life would be so much better if we just said your target in billable hours because then idiots would get over this "I get hurt by taking PTO crap..."

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It doesn't hurt you. It doesn't help you either. How do you not know this?

Pwc do you have 40 or 45 hour weeks as standard

S&1 is correct. PTO and sick time affect utilization negatively. That is why we don't have a 100% targets.

We have 40 as Standard and yes PTO does affect util. Targets for my group were 85%

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