Deloitte U.S. Delivery Center Employees Should Get the Same Parental Leave Perks As Everyone Else
I am an employee of the Deloitte U.S. firm. I am part of the consulting practice through their U.S. Delivery Center (USDC) model. We work closely with core consultants for Deloitte, often on the same project teams operating at the same level. USDC practitioners have travel capped at 20-30% and our three offices are located […]
One Big 4 Firm Isn’t Among the 10 Best Companies for Working Moms
Working Mother released its list of the 100 best companies for 2019 yesterday, and the usual suspects from public accounting are once again on there (in alphabetical order): BDO USA Deloitte Ernst & Young Grant Thornton KPMG Moss Adams PwC RSM US Those are eight of the 12-largest accounting firms in the U.S. that made […]
Here’s Your 2018 List of the Most Mom-Friendly Public Accounting Firms
Hey, ladies! If the grind of a career in public accounting is appealing to you and if you’re planning to have a family of five kids, two dogs, and a cat one day, then you should consider buying a Chevy Traverse—and peruse Working Mother’s 100 Best Companies list for 2018. From a public accounting standpoint, […]
Big 4 Should Follow the Silicon Valley Model For Attracting Top Female Talent
When discussing the plight of the working woman, it's rarely suggested that women simply put off motherhood in order to climb the corporate ladder. No worries, Facebook and Apple are on it: Two Silicon Valley companies will now cover egg-freezing as an incentive for top female talent in their prime fertility years who don't want […]
If You Aren’t Getting the Work-Life Balance You Want, Maybe You Should Sue
This Fortune piece is probably just one big troll but if not, this could be a reality at an accounting firm near you: A slew of gender discrimination lawsuits coming out of big banks point to something we all already know: women in finance don’t have it easy. A male-dominated industry notorious for its long […]