For my Big 4 peeps in M&A tax, how many hours a week are you putting in / billing on average? Are there charge goals or is it just kind of too unpredictable to place an actual goal on?

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At our all hands they showed targets and actual utilization for each level with some being lower than target. So essentially online work environment hurt utilization and they are trying to have people ramp up again if they aren't fully utilized.

I was below target (65% I think) but I was the same as the "actual" average utilization (something like 50% for staff level).

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