Accenture has fired more than 11,000 workers in the last three months, and this wave will continue. According to the CEO of the company, Julie Sweetthey will not be able to follow their AI program, and cannot be trained to get to have skills in the use of artificial intelligence. Of course, according to Computerworld, the directive has also assured that it will increase its workforce, especially hiring professionals specialized in data and IA. Only this year have already hired 77,000.
Sweet has reported that it plans to get rid of its employees that do not use AI during the meeting in which you have communicated the financial results of the fourth fiscal quarter, as well as the annual results, of exercise 2025 of the consultant, which ended last August. According to her, her template must learn and use the AI, in addition to implementing AI -based projects for her clients. Otherwise, they will have to abandon their work.
In Accenture they are carrying out a restructuring program based on quite aggressive, which has led to the dismissal of 11,000 workers in the last three months. For them, now, their main strategy is based on increasing the capacities of their employees.
Among his plans is, in view of Sweet’s claims, to promote the increase in employee skills in artificial intelligence systems, and pointed out that «Each technology wave has its time to train and restructure. Accenture’s main competition is to do it on scale. Probably, our clients cannot develop all the experience they need on their own, they need us to go ahead, and fast«.
He also pointed out that «Advanced AI is becoming part of what we do«, Indicating that the consultant will continue to make significant investments in said technology. Until now, as he said, Accenture has already formed 550,000 employees in the bases of the generative AI, as part of a complete business optimization program, which will last six months and in which around 865 million dollars will be invested. In this amount, the costs of the dismissals and their compensation are included.
According to the CFO of the consultant, Angie ParkAccenture expects to save with its restructuring around one billion dollars, and plans to reinvest them in the business, as well as in the workforce. On the other hand, they also have forecast to maintain benefit margins. In the last six months, the company has entered 2.6 billion dollars for its IA consulting work.
