Pardon my ignorance as I am a newly promoted manager from industry to B4, but how does the staff have over 168 billable hours within a week? That’s more than working 24 hours/day for 7 days/week...

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It’s probably 3 staff. 55 hrs each. Otherwise it’s a mistake.

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👆 This is the right answer. When people reclass time (or miss timesheets) it looks funny on our weekly utilization reports.

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A lot of possibilities. They could be billing hours spent on engagement docs/setup that were incurred before a code was open, or a manager informed them that some time they charged to nonbillable was actually billable. They probably billed everything to this week instead of pre-dating the time or smoothing it out over the next few weeks.

I imagine someone’s going to talk to them about this and why this is incorrect.

Also, at EY, some of our reports include modification of past time in current week hours. So on some reports it looks like I billed 50 hours when I worked 40 and changed 10 hours from one code to another in a previous week.

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That happened to me when I missed a timesheet, that’s the most obvious silly explanation. So all the hours for 2 weeks hit a single report. That’s assuming your staff was working crazy overtime both weeks still

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3 screens means triple the work output, no problems here

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"Staff" is a collective noun, as in more than 1 person. Ex: The staff is composed of many members.

EY1 - this person in question is at staff level. Sorry for the confusion.

Another thing is sometimes I charge time for multiple people if some aren’t pulling their weight. So if I work 100 hours of my work plus 40 hours of someone else I will charge 140 hours even if I only worked 100 (an extreme example).

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