Topics regarding layoffs at Accenture

Topics regarding layoffs at Accenture

Massive Indian Layoffs Coming

Accenture has advanced it’s AI technology to a point where it no longer needs the support of it’s 425,000 employees. The first large cut will come from its Indian business outsourcing segment.

US & Canada Layoffs 2018

Layoffs coming in North America, includes all operating segments at Accenture. Accenture has grown too fast too quickly and these layoffs are only natural to eliminate duplicated roles that no longer make sense.

2 weeks severance

Accenture offered 2 weeks pay for my resignation. After six years with the company I thought it would be more. Everyone should research their severance package based on their employement contract. You will be shocked how low it is!

Reduction in Force

Several rounds of layoffs in the coming weeks for Accenture in North America. I’ve seen people leaving on the Financial Services side, mostly higher level employees.

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| 1500 views | | 1 reply (June 14, 2018)
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Low pay raises this upcoming year

If you work for Accenture in North America expect low annual raises again this year. Labor costs for highly skilled resources has increased so much recently that unfortunately people with less in demand skills get placed on the back burner and... — read more 

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| 1626 views | | 1 reply (June 13, 2018)
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“Greening” the pyramid

Accenture is greening the pyrimad again. Essentially layingoff middle management and promoting younger folks at a lower salary for the same work. The low hanging fruit will be people that can be replaced with recent college grads for much cheaper.

Q3 Layoffs Confirmed

Accenture just ended it’s financial Q3 and reports earnings later this month. It is widely known that Accenture’s profit margins have been decreasing and they will need to look for ways to cut costs, layoffs in middle management is most likely.

Layoff Accenture

Now leaders will start playing PIP games with the employees and will make them redundant . Even the leadership will do it with Managers ; however they will safeguard themselves . It's an open secret the person who is laying you off is taking a fat... — read more 

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| 1810 views | | 1 reply (June 9, 2018)
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Accenture Paternity Leave

Do you guys offer a paternity leave option. My husband will be starting in July and I am doing some initial planning (we'll have the baby in December). Please let me know.

Accenture layoffs May 2018

Accenture will likely be making layoffs tomorrow, 5/31/18. End of pay period and end of fiscal Q3. They need to report cost cutting measures to shareholders and will likely do so in the upcoming earnings call later in June. Just wondering if this... — read more 

Accenture Federal

The employee turnover at Accenture’s Federal division is staggering. It is so extreme that it is highly abnormal and a major red flag. Think about this. If you are buying consulting or tech, ask about attrition levels, you will be surprised with what... — read more 

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| 1560 views | | 1 reply (May 28, 2018)
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Acquisition related layoffs at Accenture

Now that we have acquired Certus Solutions, do we know what kind of consolidation layoffs are we looking at? I know that it is the acquired company that usually gets hit more, but with Accenture I am never sure. I am positive we will have some cuts... — read more 

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Q3 layoffs

Found this: Accenture taking on water! Layoffs in the digital and Federal sectors. and this: Several sectors within Accenture are hemorrhaging cash. Layoffs coming before Q3 earning results. in another thread. I was wondering if anybody here has more... — read more 

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| 1491 views | | 1 reply (June 12, 2018)
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Will India layoffs spill over to U.S.?

layoff are on here in india, not sure of any focus on digital, but many of our US counterparts seem to have moved suddenly and new folks taking over as part of consolidation and many old ones are not contactable anymore....laid off for sure If... — read more 

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Layoff in Accenture is a reality

Layoff in Accenture is a reality. It is fine if the decision is due to the bad financial performance of the company or the bad performance of the employee, even after given with a warning. What happens on the ground is head count reduction in each... — read more 

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| 3281 views | | 4 replies (last April 3, 2018)
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Sr Manager

They will wait for 4 weeks on bench and will lay you off without any warning. They do not care what good you have worked in past. It's good if you are starting as freasher, otherwise I will suggest you look for yourself.

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| 2511 views | | 3 replies (last March 9, 2018)
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2018 Accenture UK Redundancies

I am concerned that we'll have redundancies again and that things will get worse in 2018. You never know with Accenture, sometimes it's OK here sometimes it's just crazy. Uncertainty is the only constant here - things keep changing and if we do not... — read more 

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| 2863 views | | 2 replies (last December 14, 2017)
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Accenture Bangalore Job Cuts

I am surprised that we do not have many messages on job cuts in Bangalore. The whole IT sector, non only Accenture if affected by job cuts. The techie unemployment continue to rise and with the slow down it's getting harder to find jobs, especially... — read more 

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Leave Accenture if you have a chance

End of Aug, early Sept when they realize they were significantly over budget or cannot find the budget for tech investments they want they will go after especially Internal Sr Managers in the name of "Recovery," and push them out the door, especially... — read more 

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| 2672 views | | 4 replies (last October 18, 2017)
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PTO Changes

The PTO used to start at 25 days for all Accenture resources - they changed this so the carrot is gone - this is for the USA only - not sure how other countries treat this as I am sure Europe gets a ton of PTO... Anyhow, now they give you 16 days of... — read more 

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| 2000 views | | 2 replies (last September 8, 2017)
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Be careful

Accenture shoves out talented people all the time when they are not meeting their CCI number and under constant pressure from Jo Deblaere and his cost cutting goons to take heads out and put them in India or BA. Then promise of world class... — read more 

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| 2930 views | | 5 replies (last September 8, 2017)
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Accenture India Layoffs

Accenture is laying off big time in India. They have brought a new appraisal process last year(2016) under the guise of doing away with bell curve. But in reality, the new appraisal process has been used to brutally earmark the employees under "Need... — read more 

Nobody is safe

Accenture will soon be taken over (bought) by one of the bigger companies and the Managers, Senior Managers and above who are non-technical from US/Canada/UK/Australia/NZ/India/China/Phillipines will be laid off in big numbers. Since they are being... — read more 

Accenture India Layoffs

Is it true that there will be large layoffs soon? I hear that CTS and Capgemini are in the process of introducing large retrenchment in India - I am curious how this may impact Accenture.

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| 2610 views | | 2 replies (last March 31, 2017)
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Accenture Layoffs 2017

I'd like to see if someone can give us more info about job cuts in Dublin.

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| 2630 views | | 2 replies (last March 30, 2017)
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Accenture Canada Layoffs

Any updates about layoffs in Canada - Resources group? Please share it if you have more info, I know there was a thread on this a few years ago but nobody is talking about layoffs at Accenture right now...

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Layoffs are happening on a regular basis

Layoffs are happening on a regular basis in other global locations as well. They get rid of people as soon as they don't think they need them any longer, irrespective of performance etc.

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| 2641 views | | 2 replies (last March 24, 2017)
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Accenture India Layoffs

Accenture laying off the resources even those are working in Accenture more than 5 years and they are not looking their contribution in this tenure. I will suggest please do not join this company, they are giving good hike just for sake of demand... — read more 

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| 3141 views | | 4 replies (last April 21, 2017)
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