Thoughts on how a fully remote busy season would go?

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The decline in productivity is already real. It won’t be as bad as now, because it’s easier to work remotely when things are handed to you, but it will be a challenge for sure. Think of all the new staff who will not meet their seniors or managers in person.

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I’ve done 2 already fully remote. Business as usual, without the free dinners...

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Without the free dinners....and the extra 10 pounds

Well I think at this point it’s a given we will have a fully remote busy season for 12/31 audits. The good thing is since the pandemic hit in March we’ve had a full year to prepare. I think it will go fine. The challenges will be for procedures that require observation but we’ve had enough time to plan for that.

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Good thing observation provides the least amount of evidence so it’s not really necessary

I’ve done 2 so far and it’s ok. Miss the flexibility to walk in clients office and have answers immediately but good thing is no commute, make up and chitchat time wasted.

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Decline in productivity, having to virtually train staff, IT issues, client headaches, low morale from compensation issues, new audit platform (KPMG). Yeah it's not going to go well.

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Already had one in April, didn’t go poorly. No free stuff dinners was rough but the flexibility was nice.

In the middle of one, working in the same room as the team would’ve made it easier

I already did a full remote year end this year, it went well and I don’t really feel like we were unproductive since the quantity of work is there to move through. If someone was unproductive remote they would’ve been unproductive in an audit room.

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