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Lifestyle and Hours Analysts and consultants should expect an active daily work schedule that gets filled up quickly with meetings, technical problem solving, and individual report work. There’s not a lot of down time: Insiders are continually responding to demands from managers, teammates, or clients. One insider estimates that consultants spend 20 to 50 percent of the day in meetings. When you’re not interacting with the client or fixing bugs, you’ll try to squeeze in an hour to concentrate on analysis and documentation projects that may be assigned to you. Accenture folks often find themselves on deadline, as teams finish stages of the bigger project. “There are some self-enforced and some very hard ones. Generally no one likes to delay a project. At the same time, if this doesn’t get done, you don’t like to move on to the next change,” says one insider. The Workplace Projects can last anywhere from a few weeks to a few years. Regardless of how short or long they are, projects operate in cycles. So consultants can expect to work longer hours and even some weekends when a big deadline looms. “Its sort of like a college class schedule,” says one insider. “There are times when things are slow and chugging along, times when you put a little more in and if you pace yourself you should be fine.” Says another insider, “I have had to work a few nights, but nothing too crazy. As you get higher up in the company, you tend to work a few more hours, but that is expected with the nature of the job. I have only had to work weekends once, but that was told to me ahead of time and it was due to the nature of the project (a week-long assignment in a sunny location, which I didn’t mind at all).” 26
Aside from a busy schedule, travel is definitely a part of the Accenture lifestyle. For the most part, that means spending the week with the client and a long weekend at home, often for months at a time. “When you’re more junior, you’re going to be dedicated to one client, so it’s not like you’re going to be flying into Chicago on Monday and then Des Moines on Wednesday,” says one insider. Still, travel takes it’s toll. “Everyone tells me you get sick of it after a year,” says another. The Workplace 27
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