According to a recent survey by Deloitte, a global consulting and auditing firm, 36% of 18 to 44 year olds said they enjoy working in more social spaces, like the hotel lobby or common area, while only 17% of those older than 45 reported doing the same.

BBC: A growing generation gap among business travellers

McCain contended Pitt doesn't believe in a separation between consulting for a company and auditing its books.

CNN: SEC chairman says he won't step down

The China division of auditing and consulting company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. last September offered a "virtual office tour" on its career page on Sina Corp.

WSJ: In China, Recruiting Gets Social

None yet propose the full separation that is needed between auditing and consulting firms, as McCain called for last week, but the bills at least stipulate that public companies should not be allowed to have the same firm do both its auditing and its accounting--a proposal endorsed by more than 70% of those polled by cnn and TIME.

CNN: More reform and less hot air

Some lawmakers already fret that consulting and tax advisory (when the Big Four are explicitly helping companies make money) can be in conflict with auditing (where the firms should take a wary, outside view of the books, in the service of investors not management).

ECONOMIST: The Big Four accounting firms