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Free tea + coffee (may or may not have decent coffee machine)Post 8:30/9pm - food ordered can be billed to clients
Late nights in office - free cab after a certain time - both male and female
Free economy class flight tickets during client work + 5 star stay in hotel - for associates. Business class if Partner
Access to office working space
Free snacks (not available across all Tier 1 firms)
SUPPORT
Access to printers
Access to secretaries - who book flights/ hotels + make your life easier
Access to support staff who get your printing/ stamping work done. May also help with formatting documents
Access to online resources and databases
Access to information + template from other practice areas when matter requires collaboration with other teams
SOFTWARE
Software for timesheets
Software for anti virus
Subscription to MS Office package - Teams/ MS Outlook etc
Software to prepare redlines + software to check for formatting errors
Software to allow access to all Company database (Saverisk)
Maybe some AI software (heard they are adopting this in KCO)
Please feel free to add anything I’ve missed
All of this is billed to the client's account, so you'll have to give a matter code for every cab ride, meal ordered, etc. If 4 people are getting into a cab together, for example, they'll write down the fare (bumped up as a kindness to the driver) each time a person is dropped off, so the total cab fare for the night will be billed to the client as 90 + 150 + 300 + 350 even if though it was a single cab ride, not four separate ones. Even printing of documents is done with matter codes - this is billed to the client, too. Is this the norm across T1s in Mumbai? I've interned in other T1s outside Mumbai and this wasn't how things worked
No policy of dinner or cab. Encouraged to leave start early and leave early. So you will find hardly 2-3 people after 8. All offices.
Of course I want to commodify what is already commodifying me :3