Flexibility
People are most successful when they have the everyday flexibility they need to meet the demands of their professional life and accomplish the things they identify as priorities outside of their career.
Our goal is to create a flexible work environment where we can respond in the most agile way to the demands of a client service business while providing our employees with control and influence over their own quality of life.
PwC has also integrated the concept of worklife flexibility into the day-to-day work environment through several programs, including:
- Teaming culture
A teaming culture in which multiple employees share responsibility for client service and deliverables enables our people to create work schedules that work best for themselves, the team and the client.
- Worklife resource and referral
To help our employees balance personal and work commitments, PwC offers this confidential resource and referral service that can assist PwC employees and their immediate families with financial, educational, career, childcare, elder care, disability, and stress management including free articles and publications.
- Unprescribed sick leave
To assist employees in maintaining worklife quality, the Firm’s policy provides an unprescribed number of sick days for all US full-timeand part-time staff scheduled to work at least 1,000 hours a year. What’s more, our policy allows paid time off not just for one’s own illness, but also to care for a sick child, parent, spouse, or same-sex domestic partner.
In a truly flexible work environment, individuals and teams decide together how and where work gets done.
That's why PwC is creating a new paradigm of work. One where individual goals are respected as much as professional goals, and contribution is measured by results, not by the number of hours you spend in the office.
To do this, the firm offers several formal flexible work arrangements from telecommuting to a compressed workweek. Leaders and colleagues work collaboratively to assess these arrangements in the context of the needs of the individual, the team and the client.
The formal flexible work arrangements PwC offers include:
- Reduced Hours: Reducing hours to less than a regular full-time week
- Flextime: Work hours move earlier or later than “regular” business hours
- PwC@Home: Formal telecommuting, routinely working from home three or more days per week
- PwC Offsite: Telecommuting, routinely working from home one or two days per week
- Job-Sharing: Two people jointly fulfill the responsibilities of one full-time position
- Compressed Workweek: Standard hours compressed into fewer than five work days
- Sabbatical: Leave of absence while maintaining benefits and a reduced salary rate
"When it comes to our women within the firm, we want to provide maximum flexibility. What we're trying to do is create opportunities for them to maximize their professional and their personal choices, and be successful in both."
Bob Moritz
Chairman and senior partner
"The world is changing, and people entering the workforce today have so many opportunities to find the environment that works for them, both in traditional and less traditional career tracks. People have choices and flexibility that didn’t exist even a decade ago, and I believe our workforce is better because of it."
Yolanda Seals-Coffield
Principal, Office of the General Counsel
