In your firm, does taking PTO negatively affect your utilization rate? It does at D so I’m curious to see how other firms handle this

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No, but we also aren’t assessed on a utilization rate and staffing is run centrally so we don’t have to network into projects.

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EY switched to effective. Taking vacation no long negatively impacts utilization.

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At Accenture it helps your utilization rate

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No, it’s counted towards our utilization.

None of this still makes sense, but mmmk.

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Yes. AlSo the more seniority, the more PTO u have, the harder it is to hit targets. + targets keep going up.

Doesn’t seem right. Essentially if you take your PTO you are being penalized. WTF

For those where vacation counts for utilization...what is your utilization goal and level?

This is the 3rd post on this today. I seriously don’t understand what is so hard to comprehend. It does not matter if it counts against utilization or not!

Say you have a target of 80%. Out of 2080 yearly hours, that is target billable hours of 1,664. If you don’t want it to count against utilization, and you get 5 weeks of PTO, then you’ve just removed your denominator by 200. So now your target utilization is 1,664 / 1,880 = 88.5%. Can’t stand it counting against you? Cool, have a higher target then. Your hours are still the same.

Our targets are # of hours/yr not %. So more PTO makes it harder to hit target.

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I am ex D. At ACN, it counts against utilization but it helps recoverable hours which is a metric here. Btw ... ACN bills 40 hr/week, not 45.

Not at Accenture. It's removed from our denominator. I think at D your denominator is a full 2080 hours. Ours is the hours we actually work. Roughly.

Yes, the Accenture method seems much better and actually encourages use of PTO. I’m surprised how many other places are the opposite.

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