4 key ways AI changed the Big Four in 2025

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Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, and EY make up the Big Four professional services firms.

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Consulting had a year of huge change in 2025. Here's how the Big Four firms performed this year.

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Deloitte recorded 4.8% annual revenue growth in its most recent financial year.

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Social media is giving us a glimpse inside some lavish office holiday parties

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TikTok is taking people inside big corporate holiday parties.

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From McKinsey to PwC, here's how elite consulting firms are racing to hire engineers — and train everyone else in AI

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AI is letting some workers quietly slack off — until their bosses catch on

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Software engineer Noah Olsen says he used AI to complete half of his workload -- without telling his boss.

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The new AI warnings popping up in SEC filings

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See inside KPMG's giant new NYC headquarters, which was designed based on employee input

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Across KPMG's offices nationwide, employees said they prefer round tables over all else.

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KPMG wants junior consultants to ditch the grunt work and hand it over to teams of AI agents

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I left my corporate job to build a padel club. It wasn't easy, but my passion convinced wealthy players to invest.

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Davy Sanh traded corporate life for padel courts and turned his love for the sport into a business backed by wealthy players.

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Consulting is changing. Here are 4 unlikely ways the Big Four are reinventing themselves to seem less 'stodgy.'

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The Big Four are expanding into new areas to put them closer to tech innovators and move away from what one expert called their "stodgy audit reputation."

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