EY fires dozens of staffers for taking multiple online trainings at a time -- but employees say company 'encouraged' this

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The company terminated employees last week after an investigation found some staffers had joined more than one online training class at a time during “EY Ignite Learning Week” in May, “Their emails marketing EY Ignite actually encouraged us to join as many sessions as our schedule allowed,” one staffer who was fired on Friday told the Financial Times. “We all work with three monitors. I was hoping to hear new ideas that I could bring to the table to separate myself from others.”“If you are forced to bill 45 hours a week and do many more hours of internal work, how can it not?” the person said.

Some employees took to Fishbowl, an anonymous messaging service for employees to review – and rant about – their companies.

 

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