Deloitte is cutting down PTO, parental leave, and other benefits for some US workers

• Deloitte US will cut benefits for some workers, according to internal documents seen by Business Insider.
• Parental leave, PTO, and pension plan payments have been pared back for some internal-facing staff.
• The changes are part of a wider overhaul in which the firm has also created new job titles.

Deloitte plans to pare back several core benefits for some of its employees, according to internal documents and a meeting recording seen by Business Insider.

Parental leave, annual PTO, a pension plan, and IVF funding have been reduced or cut for a group of employees who fall under the "Center" talent model, which broadly refers to employees in internal support roles, such as admin, IT support, and finance.

The changes are slated to come into effect on January 1, 2027, according to a document sent to the Center talent model in March.

It is unclear exactly how many employees will be impacted. The Big Four consulting and accounting firm employs about 181,000 people in the US.

The benefit shake-up is part of a wider talent restructuring that Deloitte announced internally in January, and that was first reported by Business Insider. As part of the changes, the firm told employees they would be getting new job titles and created a new class of leader. It also created four new segments within the business: Center, Core, Project, and Domain.

"Deloitte US is modernizing its talent architecture to provide a more tailored experience reflective of our professionals' broad range of skills and the work they do serving our clients," a Deloitte spokesperson told Business Insider.

"Benefits are regularly updated and will be tailored for a small subset of professionals to better align with the marketplace," the spokesperson said.

Companies are reducing costs

Deloitte isn't alone in tightening up workplace policies.

Workers face a difficult corporate outlook in 2026, as the shaky job market has shifted power back to employers. Faced with AI disruption and economic uncertainty, many companies are raising performance expectations and reining in perks.

Deloitte's US head count has grown over the past three years, alongside rising revenue, which reached $35.7 billion for the year ending May 31, 2025 — up 8% compared to the previous financial year.

Like its industry peers, however, Deloitte is facing challenges across both its core business lines — accounting and consulting — largely driven by AI disruption. Major consulting firms are evolving their offerings to drive AI-related business, while redesigning their internal operations and workforces to fit the future landscape.

Deloitte's government business was also hit last year amid the Trump administration's DOGE-related crackdown on consulting contracts.

"We are hearing from a number of clients that they are considering actions to reduce cost, given the ongoing uncertainty in the global economy," Ravin Jesuthasan, a future-of-work expert and the global leader of Mercer's transformation services business, told Business Insider.

They're taking a hard look at the different components of their overall labor cost, and "benefits and perks that are not fully utilized by the workforce are typically top of the list," he said.

Most of the cuts he's seen across the market have focused on tightening travel budgets and scaling back "nice to have" perks, Jesuthasan said.

A harder-edged management culture has taken hold in the corporate world, with strict RTO mandates, mass layoffs, and higher performance expectations placed on workers across the business landscape.

In recent years, Google and Meta have tried to cut costs by dropping perks and restricting work travel, and Amazon has reduced the number of shares it gives employees as part of their compensation.

"Companies have been getting tougher across the board," both by way of layoffs and ramping up workloads, said Peter Cappelli, professor of management and director of the Center for Human Resources at the Wharton Business School.

"Cuts and squeezing do not seem to be because businesses are in trouble. It seems more like with the job market slack, they feel they can," he added.

What's changing at Deloitte?

From January, all employees in the Center talent model will receive up to eight weeks of paid family leave and 18 to 25 days of PTO, depending on their seniority and tenure, the internal document shows.

They will stop earning additional accruals under Deloitte's pension plan after December 31st, the document said.

The changes also impact the part of Deloitte's Enterprise Solutions team that falls under the Center talent model, documents show.

Paid family leave, including parental leave, will be cut in half from 16 weeks to eight for employees in this group. They will also lose a $50,000 adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, which covers IVF treatment, starting in January.

PTO allowances for this group will decrease by 5-10 days for most employees, depending on seniority and start date. For example, an Enterprise Solutions employee who joined a decade ago will see their PTO drop from 30 days to 20 days in January, the documents show.

PTO for junior-level employees in this group will remain unchanged at either 20 or 18 days, depending on whether they joined before or after 2017.

In addition to PTO, the firm will continue to offer 15 companywide "disconnect days" and holidays, according to the documents.

Employees will retain benefits like medical and dental coverage, well-being subsidy, bereavement leave, and tuition assistance, according to a recording of a February meeting led by Lora Rothe, Deloitte's chief people officer for Enterprise Solutions, seen by Business Insider.

Enterprise Solutions employees will still be eligible for Deloitte's 401(k) savings plan, Rothe said.

One Deloitte worker who has been at the firm for over 10 years and falls into the Center talent model told Business Insider their benefits used to be "amazing" but said the changes felt like a "huge regression."

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