Yea or Nay on the Billable Hour

by | October 19, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Marketing, Strategy

The billable-hour poll results are in, and they look like
this:

What I find surprising about this is how few people
seem to resist (or admit to resisting, anyway) the demise of the
billable hour—only 8%.

On the other hand, two of the responses are fairly similar
("commodity work" and "for clients who insist"), together making
up 63% of respondents who basically feel that the billable hour will
remain intact for all practical purposes.

I plan to update this post in 20 years.

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