来源：四大新鲜事儿
据英国《每日电讯报》（The Telegraph）报道，随着“四大”会计师事务所继续努力应对交易市场的急剧放缓，毕马威英国宣布“冻薪”，12,000名员工会受此影响。
据报道，毕马威英国告诉员工，只给今年晋升的员工加薪。
“冻薪”让数千名员工深受打击，他们在没有得到正式晋升的情况下，进入了更高的级别，本来有机会获得加薪。
毕马威英国一半以上的合伙人去年的平均薪酬为71.7万英镑，他们将不受冻薪影响，因为他们获得的是公司利润的一部分，而不是工资。
据英国《金融时报》最先报道，拥有1.7万名员工的毕马威英国也将削减奖金。
毕马威英国的一名发言人表示：“为了吸引和留住最优秀的人才，我们每年都会对工资基准进行调整，以保持竞争力，并继续投资于员工。鉴于今年市场需求疲软，任何加薪都会优先考虑那些晋升人员。”
“今年，我们将为符合条件的同事发放奖金，以奖励他们的努力。不过，由于经济和市场环境充满挑战，奖金数额将低于往年。”
在削减成本的措施下，毕马威英国税务和法律部门的2,900名员工将只能获得其原本奖金的55%。
据报道，毕马威英国的税务和法律业务部门未能达到2023年的预期收入，该部门的老板们在本月早些时候向员工发送的一段预先录制的视频信息中，将冻结薪酬归咎于持续的“市场不确定性”。
据了解，“冻薪”政策不会影响毕马威聘任的3,000名应届毕业生和实习生。
目前，咨询业务放缓已导致四大会计师事务所人手过剩，客户纷纷取消项目，并要求降低收费。
毕马威已开始裁减其英国交易和咨询部门数百个工作岗位，上月还在内部宣布冻结咨询团队的薪酬。
与此同时，毕马威会计师事务所上个月公布了合并其英国咨询和交易顾问部门的计划，以创建一个名为 "咨询 "的新业务部门。
此前，竞争对手德勤(Deloitte)、安永(EY)和普华永道(PwC)也采取了类似举措，分别裁减了其咨询和顾问业务的数百名员工。
原英文报道如下：
KPMG has frozen the salaries for 12,000 workers across the UK as “Big Four” firms continue to grapple with the sharp slowdown in the deals market.
The accountant reportedly told staff that it will only give pay rises to those who were promoted this year.
The pay freeze hits thousands of workers who had been eligible for pay rises after moving into a higher seniority rank without receiving an official promotion.
More than half of KPMG’s partners, who were paid an average of £717,000 last year, will avoid the pay freeze as they receive a share of company profits instead of a salary.
The professional services firm, which employs 17,000 in the UK, will also slash bonuses, the Financial Times first reported.
A KPMG spokesman said: “To attract and retain the best talent, we benchmark our salaries each year to remain competitive and we continue to invest in our people. In light of softened market demand this year, any pay increases have prioritised those who have been promoted.
“We will be rewarding eligible colleagues for their efforts this year with a bonus. However, reflecting the challenging economic and market environment, this will be lower than in previous years.”
The cost-cutting measures will reportedly see those in KPMG’s tax and legal division, made up of 2,900 employees, receive only 55pc of their potential bonuses.
Bosses in KPMG’s company’s tax and legal business blamed the pay freeze on ongoing “market uncertainty” in a pre-recorded video message reportedly sent to staff earlier this month, after the division failed to meet revenue expectations for 2023.
It is understood that the pay freeze will not target the 3,000 graduates and apprentices employed by KPMG.
It comes as a slowdown in advisory work has left Big Four accountants overstaffed, with clients cancelling projects and demanding lower fees.
KPMG has already begun cutting hundreds of jobs in its UK deal-making and consulting divisions, and last month internally announced a pay freeze for advisory teams.
Meanwhile, KPMG last month unveiled plans to merge its UK consulting and deal advisory divisions to create a new practice called Advisory.
It follows similar moves by rivals Deloitte, EY and PwC, which have each launched redundancy rounds targeting hundreds of staff in their advisory and consulting businesses.
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