Hey all, as experienced consultants, what do you guys do on Friday when you go back to the office? How often do you go back to the local office?
Hey all, as experienced consultants, what do you guys do on Friday when you go back to the office? How often do you go back to the local office?
ha fun question!
Pre-COVID Friday office day typically covered one or more of the following:
Its all about catching-up with humans and showing face and making your bosses known that you exist. Consulting life is pacy and intense and if people dont see or hear from you in a while you could be forgotten. Staying visible is super critical.
Cheers!
Adi
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Hello!
For context, not all consultants travel from Monday to Thursday. Some are in the client in the same city and, in those cases, you would normally go to the client office on Friday too.
However, since many people do travel, Friday is always a fun and busy day at the office:
All in all, it was always the best day -tought you are dead from the week-.
Hope it helps,
Clara
Hi Anonymous,
In simple terms: everything on your plate which you could not do on-site at clients during the remaining week.
Depending on your role that includes face time with other people at office, finishing up client stuff, contributing to the firm (mostly recruiting events, knowledge generation, working on project proposals, ..), having trainings and organizing your private and work life. No regular schedule though.
Hope this helps - if so, please give it a thumbs-up with the upvote button below!
Robert
Hi there,
There is a very clear order of priority on Friday...note that this is in reverse order of preference :P
There are three phases which I perceived at that time:
1 phase - Associate/Consultant/..: Your friday is like a typical day at the client packed with analysis, alignments and preparation of outcomes (Fridays is a office friday)
2 phase - Senior Con/Manager/PL/..: Recruitings will become your new friend on a office friday while stile driving the case inbetween (Fridays are partly in the office but also homeoffice based when there are no interviews)
3 phase - Senior Manager/Principal/AD/Partner/Senior Partner: Business development can be done everywhere (Sometimes office but it's not a must)
Hello,
A lot of great answers here and while it's a mixture of it all, the fact is there isn't a one size fits all answer for this. Your Fridays are heavily dependant on the engagement(s) you are on. The higher you go up in the/any firm, Fridays will get extremely busy due to the following:
The mood in the office is no doubt a lot lighter with a more casual dress code. If a team has finished a large engagement, Friday afternoons are generally allocated for a team lunch that may carry on to evening drinks.
Lastly, your timesheets are due, so you are rushing to figure out how many hours to charge if you aren't 100% utilised. :-)
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