Deloitte’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 freeze, has denied claims that the firm is ‘performance managing’ people out of their jobs.
In the AFR (12/06), Playfair is quoted as saying:
We continually lift our performance bar to ensure we challenge, stretch and develop out employees and this year is no different.
a performance review caught on camera
Fair play! Last year, a 70 hour working week was apparently ordinary, so if the ‘performance bar’ is lifted this year, what will the figure be?
Playfair’s denial comes just days after rumours that workers have been let go of, despite no official announcement. It’s hard to know who to believe.
It would be difficult for a firm boasting ‘double digit’ growth to justify widespread sackings, so it makes sense (to us, anyway) that a more calculated method of reducing numbers would be implemented. This is certainly what our spies have been saying. Is it time for Vessa to play fair?
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