Keeping Billable - Anonymous employee ICF Employee Review

2.0
16 Oct 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, decent pay.

Cons

It's a billable model corporation. Employees have a billable goal (quota) in the department I'm in. The worklife/balance ...... deadlines are the priority. They will ask if you can work major holidays; Xmas Eve, Thanksgiving if necessary to get a deliverable out the door. OT is expected. You might have flexible hours, but there's a price to pay for that flexibility, because you will be working a lot of OT when the workload picks up. It's not a 9 to 5 job. But when workload dies down, then you are stressed because you have no work and your billable goal or quota suffers, and they do not like that. I've seen a lot of staff over the years get laid off because their workload died down, even though workload was out of their control. The culture/env in the office I am at is almost a negative. Employees are too busy working on deadlines to even have time to visit/chat with coworkers. Putting Admin time on your timesheet is frowned upon. They goal is to bill every hour of the day to the client.

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