[SauronOfMordor]

That 15% figure I gave for KPMG, upon checking, seems to be just for my relative's Government Consulting group. Overall, KPMG is cutting 5% of its worldwide workforce, according to an article in Computerworld's latest issue

[cactmh]

From what I hear the Big Five (and most companies) use down turns in the economy as an excuse to cut the dead weight...Now, this doesn't mean this is true in all cases, especially in a relatively small practice that your cousin was in.