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Keep sippin dat koolaid. It's easy to push the false narrative that everyone is an underperformer - do you really think a bunch of nerdy accounting students are all underperformers? Lmao
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@Associate1 ehhh EY southeast region laid off a bunch of underutilized seniors and staff 2s last December
The southeast layoffs last year were over 100 employees
It's one thing if they're getting rid of tons of people at all levels. All the people who don't get promoted are the first ones to go so there are pretty obvious deficiencies. Public accounting is a numbers game so there's a good chance that they're letting go of the people at the bottom. People also say they were laid off to cover their low performance
Everyone had layoffs at almost the exact same time this year, and it was all due to falling revenue. Obviously they choose to get rid of underperformers first, that's just how logical thinking works. But they didn't get rid of them because of the underperforming, they had to make cuts because of $$$, and underperformers are the first to go.
There hasn't been significant layoffs at the firms. Getting rid of mostly low performing people isn't technically a layoff.
Also, if you work like you're always about to be fired, you're just super paranoid which is probably hurting your performance
A1 there aren't 200k employees world wide. There are 200k employees of all member firms world wide. In reality Deloitte has the most employees at approximately 40k.
Don't see too many under performers or lack of competence at staff level. Well known firms rarely hire from weak backgrounds. There are declining margins and deal closing is tougher for firms not going with a high/low cost leveraged model. Low cost offshore or other resources combined with onshore/local management seems to be the new trend. Firms that fall behind this have to let go staff due to declining sales since their rate offerings aren't competitive enough.
Only EY has 230 000 + employees worldwide. If the possibility of a layoff is threatening you this may not be a long term career for you. You may be smarter or whatever but there are specific attributes and skills that make one valuable for this industry.
Significant layoffs would definitely have to be bigger numbers than 10-20 people. There are over 200,000 employees globally.
2008/2009
Basically what I'm trying to say is: it seems like the economy may be getting ready to slow and companies are getting more strict on costs. Thoughts?
2009, EY(Northeast) had big layoff
Yes, they are OP. The industry had slowed revenue this year.
Deloitte 1... 2008/2009 we here by over 3000 in a day in 2008... remember our federal practice? Not a significant layoff..
Why do people say EY has x amount of employees world wide? They're separate companies under one umbrella specifically to handle international corporations. They don't share revenue or expenses unless specifically stated in a particular deal and they don't layoff or hire at the same rate or time.
All the big 4 do that because they're integrated firms and we work pretty closely with people in other countries. With your logic, different lines of business don't hire or layoff at the same time so we should just go down to specific office/group.
Yeah but diff service line share revenue and expenses and all partners are liable for each other's stuff as in any partnership. USA and England are not the same partnership and aren't liable for each other. If someone were to sue it would be two separate defendants.