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Bill what you work.
Lol
Pro
Nice try, Ethics/ HR
Rising Star
I bill what I work. If that’s over 8 hours, it is what it is.
Rising Star
Are the other 4-5 hours spent being “on call” and available if your client reaches out? Are you at your desk or at least nearby it so you can jump into a document or do a quick review with your team? If you’re out, would you log back in later to do the necessary follow up and put another couple of hours in? If so, that still counts, even if you’ve knocked everything off of your “to do” list. If I knocked off after 4 hours to run errands and ignored my emails/pings/calls until the next day, then I’d not bill for those hours.
We almost always bill 45 hours per week; if you work less, bill less, but as a general rule 45 is standard based on my experience.
Depends on the SOW. If the project is just billable hours, we bill what we work. If the project is a daily rate or fixed fee, we bill 8 hours.
Rising Star
Time recording and billing practices are very firm dependent. The most common scenario is that you bill straight 8s regardless of how much you actually work, and if you don't play ball, you get a bad review. That's just one scenario, as sometimes there are projects that allow for more billing, or some firms don't care about hours to begin with.
Pro
What about "work what you bill and bill what you work??"
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We plan our staff for 45/week as a standard practice. If they get their work done I assume they're billing it all.
It's up to them based on their utilization. They could work on firm contributions, pick up gigs, or potentially help on another project. Everyone has been so busy I haven't heard about it being a problem. They aren't specifically required to work over 40, it just puts you lower in the stack for promotion metrics.
Not with us. You'll be told to reverse it. I did have one project that allowed it. Utilization was 110% that year.
Chief
Omg lol yes. It’s uncommon to bill 8 hours