What working hours are fair in consulting?
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60 to 65 including travel time.
Agree!
40 hours on a regular week, up to 60 if a hard deadline is approaching. I think i average at 45, not bad but also only been on “good” projects this far.
Agree SC4. I’m working about 45-50 right now and doing juuuust fine :)
Hahahahahahahaha
So many hardos answering this question 😂
When consultants think they're tough for working "long" hours.
What are your hours like in PE ops?
I think 62.5 on average - 60 for normal week with some 70 hours push. If you work more, you are doing it wrong.
That hurt
You are in the wrong profession if you are asking this question
Why is career sustainability an unfair question to ask?
9-5
Who told you consulting hours were fair?
If you're not traveling and not trying to meet a deadline, 40-45 hours. If you're working more than that regularly, you're being taken advantage of, and will continue to be until you find another job or stand up for yourself.
Or you actually progress faster and have more exit opportunities at a younger age. If you find yourself on projects with 40 hour work weeks, you just won't progress very quickly.
Lol huh
65 (incl. travel) is the norm. 70-75+ is starting to stretch it and worth a discussion with your manager.
Now, whether 65 hours is fair, I don’t know... but not to me so I will be exiting to something more sustainable.
A lot of these answers remind me why I hate going to D networking events sometimes
70+ usually worth talking to your manager about opportunities for improvement. But please bring ideas / be constructive
7:30 to 5:30, workout, dinner, finish emails, deliverables.
Focus on working smart versus effort.
Am I the only consultant that works 40 hours a week?
I think it largely depends on what type of consulting you’re doing. If you’re constantly putting together decks and running analyses under constrained timelines, you’ll probably have higher hours 60-70. If you’re performing more operational or change management work, 45-50 is probably more realistic because the timeline is probably less constrained.
On an operational change mgmt project (commercial client). It gets pretty crazy often but we’ve been able to extend deadlines (mostly because of the client request to expand scopes). That being said, working WITH the client can make schedules crazy and uptick hours to the 60s a week (9-7 + some weekend work)
Anything more than 50 hours on a regular basis is too much. I have left a job or two over it and those who don't continue to be taken advantage of.
Heh did you work back-office for Citi too?
45
I target about 50 - 11 hour days m-t and 8 on Friday. My M-T hours are usually 6:30-6:30 (including an hour of breaks) and Friday is 6:30 - 3. Of course it’s client driven so sometimes more and sometimes less. The nice thing about this job is how you can generally move hours around to meet personal commitments. And if you kill your self one week, you don’t feel bad about taking it easier the next week if situation permits. If I put in a 70 hour week, I have no qualms about working 8-3 a few days the next time I can make it work.