My firm just rolled out a new metric called utilization efficiency. It's basically tracking how profitable we are per billable hour. Now everyone’s cutting corners just to look efficient on paper. Quality is slipping, collaboration is dying, and everyone’s afraid to spend time helping each other because it makes their numbers look worse. Do you think metrics like this actually drive accountability, or do they just destroy morale and encourage terrible habits?

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Wow, whatever just happened to trying to stick to the rates and costs you sold the deal at.

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Jump ship if you can! That's a recipe for disaster and a sign of short-sighted leadership.

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Thanks for putting this here so our firm can create a new KPI to enable our separations.

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I get it, but with LEAD feedback, upward feedback, counsellor feedback, effective and full utilization KPIs, Unlimited PTO vs Utilization KPIs, CPE KPI’s and a host of other KPIs we don’t even know about, any one of these can be the nail Talent and GCO needs to say goodbye.

This seems redundant and a waste of time. Someone spent too much time chatting with an AI and it spit out a non-real world suggestion. This is the sort of thing that drives behavior strictly to look good for the numbers vs. culture (doing what’s right for the client and your team).

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