How bad is the market situation with the start of the year? How's the bench in your company?

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Our bench is great, we fired the whole bench. So now utilization will be great and we will have no ability to sell unless you balance project + BD

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No Bench in bcg, as before too many project for number of people … even the bad A/Cs are all staffed

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There’s not a single good A/C available in the beach for months now!

Extremely bad. Was never unstaffed last 3 years and now on bench.

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Why is that bad based on what you see? Anything new concerning Saudi consulting expenses?

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heard from a couple of partners that consulting budget is being reduced more than 50% this year

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Terrible

Extremely bad.

Decent, struggling to staff juniors on many cases

Cooked

Firm?

Extremely bad

No bench here at McKinsey utilization rate is high.

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