How a quarterly earnings shake-up could disrupt a sprawling white-collar ecosystem

Workers in downtown Manhattan Momo Takahashi/BI The SEC could soon reduce the number of times companies have to report earnings. Companies have complained that quarterly reports are costly and time-consuming. Here's how fewer reports could affect white-collar jobs across legal, accounting, and communications. A shake-up could finally be coming for quarterly earnings, and could rattle an ecosystem full of white-collar workers plying their trade as lawyers, communications pros, and data provi...