What's McKinsey & Company's position on remote work/ return to office?
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My patience for this job is waning… I’m 35, single, no debt - Made some decent investments last year in some AI chip stocks and now they’re coming to roost.. my brokerage account is now more than my 401k. I feel like my life is 90% work and 10% everything else. I wonder if I should take some extended time off (6mo-1yr) as I would love to actually have space for things during the week again and explore / grow in other areas of my life. Is it time?
People being let go bc of comparing performance against peers is bs. upgrading the team? how come other rigorous fields (investment banking, medicine, Big Law, oil & gas engineering, trading firms, etc) don’t feel the need to do this, yet they have the right people the teams need every year 😂 consulting isn’t the most rigorous/difficult/or prestigious career. just say it’s for the greed of the firm, at the cost of unempathetically uprooting employees lives & at least you’ll be honest.
At this point it’s not even clear what “return to office” means. It’s highly client-dependent, and in-person Fridays in the office were already optional before COVID. With the spread of new variants and vaccines unavailable for young children, I doubt the firm will actually force anyone to be in-person for the foreseeable future. I can’t imagine I’ll stop wfh in the next ~6 months given the type of work I do, and haven’t set foot in a McK office in almost 2 years.
Second this - no one I know has been going into our local office on a regular basis. Folks have been colocating but it’s sporadic and dependent on how the team feels. Have yet to spend time onsite with a client since I started over a year ago.
We are officially back now but it’s a soft start - will be fully back by Jan
The other side of the argument is that the firm has been falling behind in terms of coaching new joiners. So even if we’re not back to client sites, team leaders are starting to recommend collocation at McK offices. I’d expect that this becomes more commonplace starting Jan.
I’ve been in person since March/April. Either at the client site or co-locating with colleagues in our offices around the US. It is very client dependent, but when we couldn’t go to a client site for one reason or another we have still been colocating in a McK office in a member of the team’s city.
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