{"id":877899,"date":"2025-12-16T22:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/mckinsey-plans-to-cut-10-percent-of-its-workforce\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T04:25:16","slug":"mckinsey-plans-to-cut-10-percent-of-its-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/mckinsey-plans-to-cut-10-percent-of-its-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinsey Plans to Cut 10 Percent of Its Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"post-407434\">\n<header class>\n<p>The consulting firm that built a business telling companies how to cut costs is now turning that advice inward.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tBy\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/author\/jonathan-small\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJonathan Small\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span role=\"separator\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tedited by\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/author\/jessica-thomas\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJessica Thomas\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span role=\"separator\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t|\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tDec 15, 2025\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>McKinsey &#038; Company, the consulting powerhouse known for advising companies on efficiency and cost-cutting, is now planning to cut its own workforce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-15\/mckinsey-executives-plot-job-cuts-in-slowdown-for-consulting-industry?embedded-checkout=true\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The firm wants to lay off about 10 percent of employees in non-client-facing roles, a move that could roll out over the next year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The planned cuts come after years of rapid hiring followed by stalled growth. Revenue has hovered around $15 billion to $16 billion, while clients grow more cautious about big consulting bills. Rivals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/en-in\/news-and-trends\/accenture-revenue-rises-7-as-layoffs-continue-through\/497601\" rel target=\"_self\">Accenture<\/a>, EY and PwC have made similar moves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-15\/mckinsey-executives-plot-job-cuts-in-slowdown-for-consulting-industry?embedded-checkout=true\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>McKinsey &#038; Company, the consulting powerhouse known for advising companies on efficiency and cost-cutting, is now planning to cut its own workforce, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-15\/mckinsey-executives-plot-job-cuts-in-slowdown-for-consulting-industry?embedded-checkout=true\">according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The firm wants to lay off about 10 percent of employees in non-client-facing roles, a move that could roll out over the next year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The planned cuts come after years of rapid hiring followed by stalled growth. Revenue has hovered around $15 billion to $16 billion, while clients grow more cautious about big consulting bills. Rivals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/en-in\/news-and-trends\/accenture-revenue-rises-7-as-layoffs-continue-through\/497601\" rel target=\"_self\">Accenture<\/a>, EY and PwC have made similar moves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-12-15\/mckinsey-executives-plot-job-cuts-in-slowdown-for-consulting-industry?embedded-checkout=true\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe rest of this article is locked.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoin Entrepreneur<span>+<\/span> today for access.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/business-news\/mckinsey-plans-to-cut-10-percent-of-its-workforce\/500869\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Jonathan Small<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The consulting firm that built a business telling companies how to cut costs is now turning that advice inward. By Jonathan Small | edited by Jessica Thomas | Dec 15, 2025 McKinsey &amp; Company, the consulting powerhouse known for advising companies on efficiency and cost-cutting, is now planning to cut its own workforce, according to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33241,974],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-877899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mckinsey","8":"category-plans"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}