Last year the government paid more than half a billion Euros in fees to the big consulting companies- triple what it handed over before Covid. It comes as the so-called Big4 advisors are under scrutiny for their advice. Claudine Cassar is a Corporate Anthropologist and Editor of big4news.com was an equity partner with Deloitte and writes about the undue pressure that is placed on partners and staff to cut corners to achieve financial targets.