We’re not going to say that the pending endorsement of Becks’ undies has anything to do with it but that guy doesn’t come cheap.
Our contributor, Francine McKenna, is reporting on her blog that PwC Advisory cuts will be going down next week:
I’ve just received word: There was a PwC Advisory partners emergency conference call tonight announcing upcoming involuntary staff reductions.
(This time the source is impeccable.)New US Advisory Leader, Dana McIlwain laid out the bad news: The time has come to cut. Average utilization is hovering at 69%. Cash collections are millions short. Campus recruiting for Advisory has been stopped cold. Business sucks and then there’s the 800+ BearingPoint folks to absorb.
On November 11th the rank and file partners, fortified after training and coaching by HR via a webcast in the next few days, will chop 300+ professionals from PwC Advisory, at all levels, all geographies, all practices. Most have already seen the writing on the wall via forced ranking.
Well, crap. We’re not talking Lotus Notes developers this time around. If the guillotine does indeed drop next week, it probably won’t come as a surprise with the less-than exciting revenue numbers and the rumors that the firm was phoning in no raises for fiscal year 2010.
Oh and then after whoring themselves out for AHIP, P. Dubs turned around and folded like a cheap lawn chair. That probably won’t win you clients.
We’ll keep our ear to the ground on this but in the meantime, let us know if you’ve got more details on these rumored layoffs or if you get an unexpected email much earlier than next Wednesday. It’s been known to happen.
Veteran’s Day In PwC Advisory: Say Auf Wiedersehen [Re: The Auditors]
Earlier: PwC’s Re-thinking of the Bell Curve Ranking
Also: Ratings, Raises, and Promotions: Forced Ranking in the Big 4
So does this mean that the current PwC Advisory Professionals are the “B” team to BearingPoint’s “A” team?
@1 PwC Advisory veterans (which isn’t saying much since you joined either since 2002 or are refugees from the last time PwC failed at consulting,) are being sacrificed to a dream. It’s the dream of the current Advisory management team to be dealmakers and the top firm in all markets. Unfortunately they’re just audit schmucks in consultants’ clothing and not very stylish stuff at that, given how much they make. You can take a guy out of the “team room” but you can’t take the “team room” out of the guy, I guess.
Bearingpoint considered “A” team? Wow, fail.
i really hope #4 doesn’t get caught *rolls eyes*
i’ll have to look you up in our directory….