By “something” we mean “aggressively enshittifying their product.” Bet clients and prospective clients will just love that.
Financial Times reports that their birdies are pointing to an overhaul in consulting at PwC, one that will lead to even more use of offshore services:
PwC plans to overhaul its global consulting business in a bid to eliminate the sometimes disjointed service when its national firms work together, which bosses view as a disadvantage against more tightly integrated rivals.
A blueprint being drawn up by international leaders is designed to standardise PwC’s services across the globe and increase the use of shared staff in locations such as India, according to five people familiar with the effort.
The planning has been given a new urgency by the rise of AI and the threat of major upheaval across the consulting industry, the people said.
Global advisory revenue was $24.3 billion USD for 2025, an increase of just 4.5% over 2024. So they’re struggling a bit for sure.
You know, if you’re wanting more consulting work and are worried about clients choosing AI over your expensive services, relying heavily on shared service centers to do what work you do have isn’t the way to make things work out in your favor long-term. But what do we know, we’re not global PwC leadership.
Meanwhile, and possibly related to this, a US-based tipster informs us that there are changes to health benefits coming. Evidently the people team is already anticipating some griping about whatever these changes are. We, and PwCers, should have more details later this week.
The race to the bottom continues!
Offshoring professional services won’t be popular as a handful of good talent will be purged with the fat. Offshoring provides a great way to reduce expenses at no expense of quality.