Professional services

Closer alignment with the EU was becoming an urgent priority for many businesses, the IoD poll found.

Accenture has axed its global diversity and inclusion goals after an evaluation of the changing US political landscape.

KPMG UK partners receive record pay averaging £816,000 following an 11% increase in pre-tax profits to £404 million.

A former Accenture executive who filed an employment tribunal claim against the consulting company, has settled his case.

Most of the UK’s financial sector bosses say they would like workers to spend more time in the office over the next year.

Deloitte UK announces it is equalising parental leave, the first of the Big Four accounting firms to do so.

Two in three (64%) professional service companies have stopped advertising fully remote roles, while nearly one in four (23%) have increased employee office days in the past 12 months.

Accounting and professional services firm PwC has told employees it will begin tracking its working locations to ensure they spend required time on site.

Accounting professionals are facing a ‘mental health emergency’, according to an industry tracker.

Consulting firm PwC is cutting back its summer perk of allowing staff to finish at lunchtime on Fridays.
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KPMG is expecting to make further job cuts to its client-facing and back office roles in an attempt to slash costs.

Refusal to attend the office for at least three days a week will lead to partners at one City law firm with negative performance reviews.

HSBC and Deloitte have pulled job offers to foreign graduates of UK universities after the salary threshold for a skilled worker visa was increased.

Employers are being urged by KPMG to recruit ex-offenders as part of national campaign to reduce reoffending and grow the economy. 

Hospitality, IT, care, SMEs and graduate employers are likely to face the biggest hurdles when the work visa changes are implemented.