How much vacation time is reasonable to expect? I am assuming there's not typically a difference for partners? It's bare minimum at current firm but this will be the first time I'd be starting somewhere new and I want to know what is reasonable and if it's possible to have unlimited...

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At my firm, Partners have unlimited vacation and the complete inability to use it.

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You can take as much vacation as you want, you just have to hit your numbers.

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Partners’ time off isn’t usually tracked. We’re not employees, we’re owners.

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Lots of the big 4 now have unlimited leave - challenge is taking it

Remeber the EY people leader sent the memo that got leaked saying people take less leave with unlimited leave so woo hoo. She ‘retired’ shortly after!

Reasonable at B4? MBB? Where?

Ha it’s defo tracked

EY1 - your powers of deduction are truly astounding. MD does not equal P/P.

What other masterful observations would you like to enlighten us with?

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I'm about to take some off as a new partner, i venture to guess, max 4 days before i get asked to join a call. Other partners have known of my outage since about Nov.

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Having conversations for MD roles at Deloitte and KPMG...any insights to offer from this wise and esteemed group?

Looking for firms/areas where to work on “people” and “org” topics. No longer at BCG left as a sr. Principal to join industry, learnt a fair bit but realize people topics are the space I thrive in and wondering if coming back to consulting would be interesting. Any recommendations on firms who focus a lot on those areas?

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