From ComputerWorld: Accenture has announced plans to cut employees who are unable to train in artificial intelligence (AI). This is part of a wider restructuring strategy that will see the company focus on AI measures.
“Advanced AI is becoming part of everything we do,” announced CEO Julie Sweet last Thursday in the analyst conference for the fourth quarter of 2025, pointing out that Accenture will continue to invest significantly in this area. Employees are therefore expected to undergo extensive “further training and retraining”.
“By definition, every new wave of technology has a time where you have to train and retool,” said Sweet. “Accenture’s core competency is to do that at scale. Our clients cannot possibly build all of the expertise they need on their own, they need us to go first and fast.”
“We are investing in upskilling our reinventors,” the Accenture boss said, using the company’s new name for its employees. However, she said, Accenture is “exiting on a compressed timeline” those for whom retraining is not a viable route to the skills required by the consultancy.
According to the CEO, Accenture has already trained 550,000 employees in the basics of generative AI. The move is part of a comprehensive, six-month business optimization program worth $865 million, which also includes layoffs and severance packages.
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