There is also the opposite idea: ghosting hours. Where you are actually working 80 hours, but billing 40. I've had meetings where the bosses of the consulting f

There is also the opposite idea: ghosting hours. Where you are actually working 80 hours, but billing 40. I've had meetings where the bosses of the consulting firm state that the more junior consultants much be in before the client, must leave after the client, and much not ghost hours at all. When they say these things, they really mean that you must ghost hours. A lot of consulting is learning to read between the lines. A great show on the topic is House of Lies. Though most consultants won't claim to have seen everything in the show, they have seen about half. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies