By paying commissions, in the form of bonuses, on revenues earned from clients brought in raises questions about the independence of services provided by Deloitte & Touche. Recent efforts to approach staff and management of rival firms with bonuses, offers of doubling salaries, and more, including at least one instance of paying top recruits 6 percent of revenues earned from new clients brought from former firms has eyebrows raised in the industry.
See "Deloitte & Touche Woos Rival Staff With Bonuses", Andrew Jack, Financial Times, May 1, 2002