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The points from travel is a huge yearly bonus to me. If i we're local, I would go to industry and work better hours and better quality of family life
Understand the thoughts, and a big fan of working remotely. However, one of the key benefits of being on site is the random meet-ups w key client execs - and those lead to revenue. Like being their for a fumble, if u r not there at the right time then someone else will pick-up the ball.
I’m sorry, but if you can make Consulting money and sleep in your bed every night, that’s the play
It used to be glamorous with deep expense budgets, business class, etc. but that is just not realistic now with firms pinching every penny possible
It should happen now. There is no need to be onsite more than 2 days, 3 max. I think the bigger impact will be to senior folks having less face time with client leadership
And the inevitable whine fest from millennial jrs about not having a travel role and how they will switch to a company that does travel and flies analyst intercontinentally
If I didn’t have the travel I wouldn’t be in consulting
Thought 50% travel was the answer too til I came to Slalom. Since then realized how hard it is to gain the trust (aka $) of your client when not in person.
I am a partner and run all my teams that way now. Why do it any other way? They are now productive when they don't travel. Travel onsite only for actual meetings that require in person.
Travel budget will be replaced with proper telecommuting office equipment for everyone. Say $3000 each, skip a month of travel. And voila everyone can do full round table and conferencing as if they are in the room. And it’s a investment once every 2-3 years
EY1 I like it too but would prefer 50%
Relaxing of M-Th but it is still weekly
Good points in here. I think there is room for tweaking the current model to better tailor to client needs and expense budgets, and burn out less people along the way. “We’ve always done it this way” needs some “unpacking” <—— current least favorite consulting term.
To answer the OP question, it'll happen more when client resources are working remote, imho. When the value of walking the halls < the cost of travel because clients are at home, there will be advantages to being remote.
The random 15 minute chats about what the client did this weekend or random other topics in person really can’t be replicated via being remote. I agree though maybe there can be a model where after the first several weeks it’s more remote or even doing tues-Thursday would be a good start
My primary client has me come every other week. My other clients are 100% remote. One is a former fulltime client. They keep coming back to me because they trust me.
This will never happen. Unfortunately, it’s whatever the clients want and 9 times out of 10 they want you onsite to be at their beck and call. Tis life
I see it switching where more in person time is spent with company SMEs and less time directly with clients.
I’ve been in a firm where most work is remote. It definitely doesn’t work as well. There’s a lot of value to being with the client and able to walk by peoples desks to chase or ask a question about data, etc. That said, more could be done to staff pure generalists on local projects
I think a relationship with the client has to be established at the beginning then remote is effective.
There is value to a model were you can spend more time remote. It would be more efficient and better for the company. From my perspective it would be consulting a lot less attractive. I like traveling, consulting happened to let me travel, hence here I am. I would help a consulting company get to their less travel version then call it a day and move on to something that will let me travel.