In the midst of the new coronavirus pandemic, many companies are implementing voluntary or mandatory work-from-home policies. That means lots of us are dealing with an unusual challenge: working from home for the first time, full-time. Even if you’ve done […]
Les banques françaises ont isolé leurs traders, interdit les déplacements et introduit une série d’autres mesures alors qu’elles naviguent à vue face à l’extrême volatilité du marché, tout en se conformant aux nouvelles directives strictes du gouvernement, destinées à ralentir […]
They might be regretting appearing in that photo now. Two days after Credit Suisse’s executive team posed alongside Tidjane Thiam in a show of support for the chief executive’s Instagram account, Thiam has gone. Some of those who appear in the photo, like Brian […]
Qu’il s’agisse de gérer la situation d’un salarié en état d’ivresse ou d’organiser un pot de départ, la question de l’alcool en entreprise n’est pas à prendre à la légère par l’employeur. Le point avec Timothé Lefebvre, avocat au Barreau […]
If you’re an ‘elite student’ and you don’t want to work for an investment bank or for a big tech firm, chances are you want to work for a major strategy consulting firm like McKinsey & Co. And once you get into McKinsey, you […]
So you want to work at Deloitte? You’ll need to get in line, and check your contacts list. As one of the Big Four professional services firms, Deloitte receives over 500,0000 applications every year for experienced roles, with only the […]
I applied to my Big Four firm in Singapore as an auditor not because I was particularly ambitious, but because I thought it would be a stable graduate job (I have a BBA in accountancy from the National University of […]
As a trader with a bank, I want to address my colleagues in the investment banking division (IBD) who complain about how hard they work. We all work hard in finance. I know that you sometimes work late. I know that you […]
Sixty-one per cent of managers and directors are planning to spend less on their office Christmas parties, with 12% cancelling them altogether. What is going on? A joyless press release landed in my inbox last week. According to offices.co.uk, a provider […]
If you’re employed by Deutsche Bank and you see technologists taking an unusual interest in your workflows, then beware. Deutsche still has thousands of jobs to cut from its investment bank, and technology is its primary weapon in their elimination. “Eighty […]
