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Here’s An Original Idea for Threatening Your Local Tax Authority

Here’s An Original Idea for Threatening Your Local Tax Authority

Envelopes with white powder? Please. Bomb threats? Played. Planes into buildings? Meh.If you really want to get some attention, you need to employ tactics that would make Samuel L. Jackson soil himself: [via TaxProf]

PwC India Consultant Did Not Technically Die From Work-Related Hazards

PwC India Consultant Did Not Technically Die From Work-Related Hazards

Over the weekend, we got news that a 34-year-old PwC India senior consultant was found dead at his Calcutta home. A maid noticed smoke and alerted the man’s parents, who lived downstairs. When the parents rushed into the room, they found their son’s bed partially in flames. Police and fire department officials initially suspected Sayan…

How managers may be sabotaging work-life programs

How managers may be sabotaging work-life programs

A lot of companies today offer great work-life programs, but are managers penalizing employees who use them? Many employees say “yes.”
It appears anywhere from 25% to 40% of employees in the U.S., U.K. and Germany don’t feel comfortable using their employer’s work-life balance programs, according to a new WorldatWork study.
Why the discomfort? They feel [...]

What If 20 Percent of Audit Work Was Performed Offshore?

What If 20 Percent of Audit Work Was Performed Offshore?

You may have heard that accounting firms – primarily Big 4 firms – have been slowly transitioning work to countries like India and Sri Lanka. This particular topic of discussion typically results in a heated/subtly racist conversations about “foreigners taking American jobs” which eventually evolves into a more overtly racist conversation, not unlike what happens…

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