3 ms·

Yeah, it crept up over the years. Start at 6hrs a day, then 6.5, then 7 and then 8 about 4 years ago.

• ubermonkey 4y ago
  8 is just unrealistic, and invites fraud. BigLaw have expectations like this, but the overt toxicity of that is so famous I'd hope tech would avoid it. In some firms, with rounding allowed, it used to be common to schedule 3 20-minute calls in an hour, because it would yield 1.5h of billable time.
• lmkg 4y ago
  I've worked as a consultant at various jobs, with billable expectations ranging from 55% to 85%. The largest company I worked for, which was a Big Four consultancy, had the highest billable expectation. But they also had entire departments of non-billable support staff. The smallest company I worked for also had the smallest billable expectation, but also expected certain non-billable work of us (which I generally liked). The Big Four company also calculated their billable expectation on a nine-hour workday. So working eight billable hours per day every day meant your billable rate was only 89%. It was fine with them if you only put 40 hours a week into the time-tracker, but the denominator was 45.