Deloitte Made $35.7 Billion Last Year But Is Now Taking Away Parental Leave, PTO and IVF Benefits From Its Own Workers

For the fiscal year ending May 31, 2025, Deloitte US reported revenue of $35.7 billion, an 8 percent increase over the previous year. Months later, internal documents obtained by Business Insider revealed that a segment of its workforce would be losing parental leave, paid time off, IVF funding, and pension accruals starting January 1, 2027. The employees affected work in internal support roles; admin, IT, finance, the kind of people who keep a $35 billion firm running from the inside. For many of them, the news landed like a gut punch.

Who Gets Hit and Why It Matters

The cuts apply specifically to employees classified under Deloitte’s newly created “Center” talent model, which broadly covers workers in internal-facing support roles rather than client-facing positions. As part of a wider talent restructuring announced in January, Deloitte divided its workforce into four internal segments: Center, Core, Project, and Domain. The Center category is where the benefit reductions are concentrated. Deloitte employs approximately 181,000 people in the United States, and while the firm described those affected as a “small subset,” the exact number of impacted workers has not been disclosed publicly.

Parental Leave Cut in Half. IVF Funding Gone Entirely.

The specifics of what is being taken away are significant. Paid family leave, including parental leave will be cut from 16 weeks to 8 weeks for affected employees. A $50,000 adoption and surrogacy reimbursement that also covers IVF treatment will be eliminated entirely starting in January 2027. For workers who are planning families or currently undergoing fertility treatment, the timing and the scale of the cut carry consequences that go well beyond a line item on a benefits document. One employee who has been at the firm for more than a decade told Business Insider the changes felt like a “huge regression” from benefits that used to be “amazing.”

The PTO Cuts Are Just as Stark

Paid time off is also being reduced for most employees in the affected group, with decreases ranging from 5 to 10 days depending on seniority and start date. An Enterprise Solutions employee who joined Deloitte a decade ago will see their annual PTO drop from 30 days to 20 days under the new structure, a loss of two full weeks of paid leave per year. Junior-level employees hired before or after 2017 will see their PTO remain unchanged at either 20 or 18 days respectively. Pension accruals will also stop at the end of December 2026, meaning affected employees will no longer build additional pension benefits after that date.

What Deloitte Says About the Decision

A Deloitte spokesperson told Business Insider the firm is modernizing its talent architecture to create a more tailored experience that reflects the broad range of skills and work performed across the organization. On the benefits specifically, the spokesperson said that benefits are regularly updated and will be adjusted for a small subset of professionals to better align with the marketplace. The statement offers a strategic framing of the cuts but does not address the specific magnitude of what affected employees are losing or the contrast between the reductions and the firm’s growing revenue position heading into the same period.

This Is Happening Across Corporate America

Deloitte is not operating in isolation. A pattern of benefit cuts and tightening workplace policies has spread across major American employers over the past two years, driven by a combination of AI disruption, economic uncertainty, and a labor market that has shifted power back toward employers. Ravin Jesuthasan, global leader of Mercer’s transformation services, told Business Insider that companies are taking a hard look at labor costs and that benefits not fully utilized by the workforce tend to be first on the list. Most cuts he has observed across the market have focused on travel budgets and perks considered non-essential, though parental leave and IVF funding are rarely described that way by the workers who rely on them.

Google, Meta, and Amazon Have Done Similar Things

The corporate benefit rollback is not unique to professional services. In recent years, Google and Meta have cut perks and restricted work travel as part of broader cost reduction efforts. Amazon reduced the equity compensation it provides employees. Across the business landscape, Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the Wharton School, told Business Insider that companies have been getting tougher both through layoffs and by ramping up workloads. His assessment was pointed: the cuts do not appear to be driven by companies in financial distress. With the job market looser than it was, he said, employers simply feel they can.

AI Is Changing What Big Firms Think They Need

One of the structural forces behind the restructuring at Deloitte and its peers is the accelerating pressure from artificial intelligence on core consulting and accounting functions. Major firms are redesigning their internal operations and client offerings to fit a future where AI handles more of what support staff currently do. The creation of new talent categories like Center, Core, Project, and Domain reflects an internal reclassification of workers based on how central they are expected to be to AI-driven service delivery. Workers in the Center category may find themselves on the wrong side of that calculation as the industry continues to evolve.

The Government Business Hit Made Things More Complicated

Deloitte’s position heading into these cuts is also shaped by a specific setback in its government business. The firm was among those affected by the Trump administration’s DOGE-related reduction in federal consulting contracts, which cut into a revenue stream that had been a significant part of Deloitte’s government services practice. That pressure, alongside the broader AI disruption to consulting, created a set of conditions where cost management became a higher internal priority even as overall company revenue continued to grow. The affected employees are absorbing some of the cost of a structural shift that has very little to do with their individual performance or value to the firm.

The People Keeping the Firm Running Are Absorbing the Cost

What makes this story land the way it does is the specific group being asked to give something up. The workers in Deloitte’s Center category are not the partners billing clients at premium rates. They are the administrative, IT, and finance staff who make the operation function. They are losing parental leave at a firm that made $35.7 billion last year. They are losing IVF funding at a firm actively marketing itself as a modern, people-first employer. They will retain medical, dental, and 401k access, and those are not small things. But the gap between what the firm earns and what it is taking back from its most support-level workers is a number that is difficult to look past.