The best solutions are created together

Community of solvers

We are a worldwide network with nearly 364,000 professionals in 151 countries. Together we possess a wide range of skills and perspectives, which is exactly what is needed to solve the often complex challenges faced by our clients and society.

Last year, PwC introduced the term ‘community of solvers’. It reflects our belief that we can come to better solutions for the issues of today and tomorrow when we look from different backgrounds and angles at what can be done in a smarter way. The key is to bring together the right people with diverse expertise for the issue at hand and that is exactly what happens within the community of solvers at PwC.

Safe, inclusive and diverse collaborative culture

A strong community requires a safe, inclusive and diverse collaborative culture. An environment where people can speak up, feel valued and work with purpose. From that perspective, we do not just look at quotas on gender and cultural diversity. The key challenge for us is to bring together the right capabilities to solve issues with passion, knowledge and skill.

Be yourself. Be different. Read more about our I&D policy

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Employer of choice ranking

5,761

Number of headcounts as at 30 June 2023

5,367

Average FTE 2022/2023

87%

People engagement index

Growing as a community of solvers

As new colleagues join PwC, we pay attention to inclusive culture and a safe environment in our onboarding programme and define what working within a community of solvers means. While this may seem logical on paper, it is often a challenge in practice. We are used to working in our own field of expertise. At the same time, we often have a focus on projects within a business unit or Line of Service.

To truly bring the idea of working within communities to life, new colleagues from different departments and Lines of Service are brought together during onboarding. This enables cross-pollination to occur at an early stage. Furthermore, and in addition to their professional skills in their field of expertise, we ask our people to become proficient on wider themes such as ESG and digitisation.

Working as a community of solvers does not stop at the door to our office. As well as intensive collaboration with clients, we also work together with other knowledge partners. Over the past year we signed contracts with Metabolic and Scorius, two partners that fit our strategic priorities of sustainability and digitisation.