The autumn holiday season has been far from relaxing for employees at Deloitte. Mass staff job cuts, partners entering early “retirement” in their dozens, and the firm’s leadership disappearing on a retreat in Cairns while worker bees kept the billables turning over down south. New CEO Joanne Gorton has several spinning plates.
Then there is the fact of the big four professional services firms being generally on the nose since the PwC tax leaks scandal, particularly in Canberra. Just the job for an enterprising lobbyist, one might think.
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