Accenture warns senior staff to use AI tools—or risk missing out on leadership rolesAccenture has implemented a policy tying senior employees’ career advancement to AI usage. Weekly log-ins to internal AI tools, including A...
19 Feb, 2026, 10.13 PM IST
How did Accenture get its name 25 years ago? Here's the storyAccenture got its name 25 years ago after Andersen Consulting had to rebrand and separate from its parent company. Thousands of employees h...
29 Oct, 2025, 12.39 AM IST
Accenture to train 700,000 staffers to use agentic AIAccenture is upskilling its 700,000+ employees in agentic AI. This move will help the consulting firm meet rising client demand. The traini...
15 Sep, 2025, 02.46 PM IST
Accenture’s long-awaited salary hikes are here: 15,000 Indians rejoice as promotions roll outAccenture salary hikes promotions: Accenture has announced salary hikes between 3% and 13% for employees at Associate Manager level and abo...
22 May, 2025, 08.13 AM IST
Accenture to promote 50,000 staff after six-month delayThe move comes as the New York-listed company grapples with a pullback in client spending and greater scrutiny of US government contracts u...
21 May, 2025, 11.43 AM IST
Ramping up hiring in India; focus on freshers, says Accenture CEO Julie SweetAccenture is intensifying its hiring in India, focusing on fresh graduates to refresh its workforce. CEO Julie Sweet highlighted the import...
27 Sep, 2024, 06.46 PM IST
Accenture delays promotions globally, after denying salary hikes to India staff in 2023Accenture Plc will delay most staff promotions by six months, moving the announcement to June 2025 instead of December. This decision, affe...
23 Sep, 2024, 03.14 PM IST
IT consulting firm Accenture to cut 890 jobs from Irish operationsAccenture plans to cut around 890 jobs from its Irish operations, on top of the 400 staff let go earlier this year, both as part of a round...
01 Aug, 2023, 08.39 AM IST
War-rooms and oxygen: India's IT companies scramble to handle Covid-19 surgeWorkers at huge technology service providers Accenture and Wipro say teams are working 13-14 hours daily, under growing pressure and strugg...
28 Apr, 2021, 01.05 PM IST
Boards at banks still not sufficiently tech savvy, says new Accenture studyAccenture analysed almost 2,000 directors at more than 100 large banks and found only 10% of board directors and 10% of chief executive off...
12 Mar, 2021, 12.43 PM IST
Incentives change colour as IT companies chase new businessIT cos are tweaking incentives as mining existing clients become key to boosting revenue growth.
03 Sep, 2018, 08.12 AM IST
Accenture's chairman and country MD Avinash Vashistha resignsAvinash Vashistha, chairman and country managing director of Accenture India, has put in his papers and will serve his term till August end.
29 Jul, 2015, 07.06 AM IST
- Attrition rebounds: IT pros switch jobs with a vengeance
India's notoriously attrition-prone code-jocks are threatening to kick back the attrition rates to 25% levels of the boom years. 5 sectors ...
09 Mar, 2010, 07.12 AM IST
- IT's turning inwards to solve hiring needs
Companies such as Infosys, Wipro and global MNCs like Accenture and Oracle are focussing on adding strength to their internal recruitment s...
01 Nov, 2007, 02.05 AM IST
- Accenture to hike headcount in India
Global IT major Accenture is all set to hike its headcount to 35,000 people in India by August this year.
30 Jan, 2007, 02.17 AM IST
- Accenture to hike headcount to 35k
This milestone will mean that the company’s Indian operations will overtake its US headcount.
29 Jan, 2007, 06.10 PM IST
- Unilever outsources HR ops to Accenture
In a major global outsourcing deal, consumer packaged goods giant, Unilever on Wednesday announced that it had awarded a seven-year contrac...
08 Jun, 2006, 12.00 AM IST