Discussion of 75 to 80 percent utilization rates for each month are common. 4 out of 5 days of the week billable hours equates to 80%.
Fall below 75 percent utilization for a month in general consulting industry practices and you are quite close to losing a job.
Business model could be 1 project manager in US and the technical staff in India or S. America.
Sometimes, there are USA hourly contractors for USA based projects
The downside? The sellers would don’t close these deals or sc--w them up, along with the many useless BU leaders, keep their jobs while the underutilized staff get let go without severance.
Let’s just admit it. Perficient is not a people first org. Can’t wait for Trump to tarriff the cr@p out of their “ship all dev to India” plan .