Consultant On The Bench
You have very little to do and what you are assigned is often either busy work or unfulfilling at best.
Consultant on the bench. The word bench can have a negative connotation in sports. Most consulting firms have bonus and incentive systems based on utilization billable hours and sales. When you are on the bench you can spend tim.
Once again it largely depends on the firm you work for. I got together with few unassigned coworkers our own bench crew we worked on designing a second release of an internal application that the firm used. For me this is the consulting version of siberia.
If you spend a lot of time on the bench that can count against you. As a salaried employee of a consulting firm you re paid a salary while you re on the bench. Consulting firms have to maintain some form of a bench to keep a staffing pipeline for the sales pipeline.
She is a construction engineering law practitioner with over 20 years experience specialising in major projects commercial property and infrastructure development with extensive experience in ppp pfi both in the uk and internationally. What happens when a consultant is on the bench. The consulting equivalent of sports being on the bench it is viewed with worrisome anxiety by junior consultants and relieved gratitude by senior consultants.
On the bench refers to consultants that not working on a project they are known as being on the bench or idle. Lost in a hopeless no man s land. Also from a career aspect most consulting firms evaluate you at least in part on your utilization which is the number of hours you were billable over a year s time.
Next time i ll be detailing the first steps to take when joining a new project and what to expect when you re called off the bench to hit the ground running. If you re a bench player it means you re supporting the team and spectating but not actually playing. The term bench time refers to the time spent in between engagements as a consultant while working for a consulting firm.