this was too much," he wrote.

The junior accountant took time off work to deal with the shock of the evaluation which he claimed was "totally unreasonable".

"Up until that point although I was tired from work, I was in some ways proud of my achievements on my clients," he wrote.


"My clients were progressing well as you intend when you set up work and new relationships."

Over the next year, the junior accountant's mental and physical health continued to deteriorate even as he continued to be assigned to work on client matters.

Leaving PwC

In June 2010, a little over two years into his time at PwC and with his health getting worse, he resigned.

The junior accountant returned to stay with his family in Tasmania, and was diagnosed with a mix of anxietyand depression.

He began a workers' compensation claim against PwC and was deemed medically unfit to work at the end of 2011.

The junior accountant was referred to a psychiatrist who assessed that he had developed a severe anxiety and depressive disorder in response to stress at work.

The psychiatrist said the onset of the disease was during his time at PwC, with a possible cause the alleged bullying and the junior accountant's belief that he had been demeaned in front of a client.


The psychiatrist also said that the junior accountant had a tendency to be a perfectionist, and worried that an extended compensation claim would cause his condition to get even worse.

A report prepared by a psychiatrist working on behalf of PwC in June 2012 said it was "not conceivable"