What are firms stance on hours during busy season? CR has gone from an annual goal to weekly you need to bill 55 hours in top of any meetings/trainings etc. so essentially 60-65 hours is the new floor and we get questioned on it weekly.

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Emailing everyone about this during a historic blizzard when everyone had 3 hours of shoveling and kids stuck at home was a nice touch. Also making no differentiation between associates and senior managers billable targets is wild.

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It's all about squeezing in every 💵 - who has time to care about the peons?

Jesus Christ

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Are audit firms trying to get their employees to quit? That's crazy.

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Yes, this is the answer. We are approaching midterms here in the US

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Who isn’t doing 55 charge minimum in busy season?

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SA1, those ppl are doing 55-60 hours minimum year round lol

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Yeah I’ve been at this for 10 years and 55 chargeable has always been required across all the firms I’ve worked at. Sometimes those admin hours add up but it doesn’t count toward 55 billable.

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Is it even busy season if you aren’t getting to 60?

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I would guess I have more coachees than most at double digits, my talent scores are 8 points above the average here, and again, I have a business leadership role that is 40% of my time. I also get my entire office time run every week for review and an audit manager spending 10 hours a week on admin and Prd in busy season is absolutely an outlier.

AM1 should meet with their coach and figure out how to prioritize more effectively.

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I think Grant Thornton required 60 during peak busy season when I was there… then it dropped to 55, then 50 by end of April.

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55hrs billable minimum over here

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