"Welcome back to our Sunday edition, where we round up some of our top stories and take you inside our newsroom. A luxury gym, a massive food hall, and a 24/7 grab-and-go service. Those are some of the amenities at JPMorgan's new 60-story Manhattan headquarters - and they send a clear message: work-as-life is here to stay. On the agenda today: But first: Forging a new (career) path."
"PwC US hired 3,242 tax and assurance associates in the latest financial year that ended in June, part of an internal presentation showed. Three years from now, that number is expected to be 2,197,a 32% decrease. The firm plans similar decreases in its advisory division. PwC didn't get into the details with Polly but confirmed it was lowering campus hiring goals, saying "the rapid pace of technological change is reshaping how we work.""
"When Benjamin Franklin - who crucially woke up at 5 am - published his daily routine to promote the pursuit of happiness as a public good, it launched a centuries-long obsession with personal routines. Spend any time on the internet today, and you're bound to be inundated with the strange, sometimes masochistic regimens meant to boost productivity and enforce discipline."
JPMorgan's new 60-story Manhattan headquarters features amenities such as a luxury gym, a massive food hall, and a 24/7 grab-and-go service, signaling normalization of work-as-life integration. Major professional-services firms are reducing entry-level hiring: PwC hired 3,242 tax and assurance associates in the latest fiscal year but expects that to fall to 2,197 in three years, a 32% decrease, with similar cuts planned in advisory. Technology-driven changes are cited as a reason for lower campus hiring goals. A long-standing cultural fixation on morning routines persists, evolving into online regimens that emphasize extreme productivity and discipline.
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