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Historically, yes, but not right now
Quite the opposite
AFS eliminated their bench, and looks like Deloitte GPS are doing larger layoffs as of today as well. Fed consulting is not in a good state now.
Dang, that’s tough
Definitely depends on the role and contracting office. I have had friends who did ~10 hours of real work spread across 40 hours, friends who did a standard 40 hours of moderate exertion work, and have worked with offices that had their consultants doing a ton of heavy lifting on short timelines
Ive done both and generally yes, as a rule of thumb. There are a ton of variables. I’ve been crushed on both sides of the fence.
The biggest difference is pacing - new projects and onboarding are incredibly fast in comparison. Project duration is also a pretty big difference as federal will be far longer.
There are also times where federal projects will have massive, insurmountable, deadlines and expectations that are unable to be met by failures across other parts of the organization, or in the past. Can cause a lot of pain.