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KPMG KO; Dozens Sacked Without Warning
14 February 2009Knock Outs across state lines today with KPMG sacking 101 staff in the Melbourne and Sydney offices. According to one insider, who asked not to be named: 'completely out of the blue. Everyone is...
Read moreClaytons Redundancies; The Redundancies You Have When There’s No Redundancies
11 August 2009AFR legal affairs editor Alex Boxsell and deputy legal affairs editor Rachel Nickless, both excellent journalists, reported the following on 31/7: Clayton Utz and Freehills are now in an exclusive...
Read moreDeloitte Denies Claims that Workers are being ‘Managed Out’
18 June 2009Deloitte's Vessa Playfair, the same character who took a pot-shot at other Big 4 accounting firms by saying 'they have been prepared to retrench and we haven't' when the firm instituted a pay freez...
Read moreUpdate: The DLA Phillips Fox Global Amputation – New Zealand Edition
10 May 2010It seems that the DLAPH global amputation operation continues. The next limb to go? New Zealand. Sayeth the anonymous spy: The NZ DLA Phillips Fox offices have now also gone the way of Ade...
Read moreBest in the West! KPMG Hoards ‘Good’ Banned Employees
25 August 2009In the current edition of BRW, KPMG national managing partner James Allt-Graham made the following comments: We've gone to great lengths to hoard good staff... one of the realities in the medium t...
Read moreThe Triple Jump? A&O Junior Partner Pay Will Lure the Nation’s Best 21
12 July 2010We reported a few days ago that Allen & Overy had scored a major coup in convincing high profile lawyer David Poddar to take a hop, a step and a jump from Mallesons Stephen Jaques. It emerged l...
Read moreRumour PWC Set For Third Major Restructure in 12 Months
18 November 2009It sounds like something is definitely on the cards (again!) at PWC. Not satisfied with the cost saving yielded by ditching client Christmas cards and removing chocolate buscuits from the shopping list, an anymous PWC spy has revealed that more heavy-handed cut-backs are apparently looming: PwC to restructure AGAIN! So the rumours are running rampant aroudnd the office that we are once again going to have an internal "review / restructure/redundancy". For some departments that would mean the 3rd in he past 12 months. How is anyone expected to be productive if the moment you start to understand what it is you are meant to do they change it again? And what does that mean for your development? I am so sick and tired of being told they want to develop me when they a) have limited all tr...
Read moreFreehills Calls in External Advisors; Allegedly Considers Splitting Employment Group From Firm
17 March 2011Last week it was reported that a Freehills executive counsel, Teresa Torcasio, and a partner, Steven Kerr, had defected from the firm to join the further-study tightwad partnership that is HWL Ebsw...
Read moreA Very Merry Cost Cut; Deloitte’s Giam Angers Vacationers
3 December 2009Ever the unpopular leader amongst juniors, Deloitte Chief Executive partner Giam Swiergers has apparently reached a new nadir, though this time with vacation clerks. Giam, elected only days ago to continue in his role as head of Deloitte, has apparently made the very first cost-cut of his new term. And it is a very merry cost cut! This from an anonymous Deloitte spy yesterday: Hi FS, Just some news in regarding the vacationers at Deloitte. Apparently Deloitte is too cash strapped (or stingy) to invite them to the Christmas party. Good thing the vaccies are learning this lesson now, because when they start with the firm Uncle Giam will be too stingy to give them payrises, bonuses and many other benefits too. Stingy? Or cash strapped from the half million dollar partner...
Read moreA Change Would Do You Good; PwC AuIT Staff Resign In Droves
28 July 2010In response to our article a couple of weeks ago which profiled the alleged underpayment of PwC managers, came the following comments from anonymous PwC spies: First this: The “Mass Exodus”...
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- Best in the West! KPMG Hoards ‘Good’ Banned Employees
- The Triple Jump? A&O Junior Partner Pay Will Lure the Nation’s Best 21
- Rumour PWC Set For Third Major Restructure in 12 Months
- Freehills Calls in External Advisors; Allegedly Considers Splitting Employment Group From Firm
- A Very Merry Cost Cut; Deloitte’s Giam Angers Vacationers
- A Change Would Do You Good; PwC AuIT Staff Resign In Droves








