Accenture plans to sack 25,000 employees globally, including in India

Thousands of roles at Accenture could be impacted as the global IT and professional services company is looking to reduce at least 5 percent of its global workforce. This may hit jobs of 25,000 employees of the tech giant across the world, according to The Australian Financial Review, citing an internal staff meeting by Accenture CEO Julie Sweet in mid-August.

The layoff operations are expected to be completed by August 14, the report said.

“As I’ve said before, we’ve identified some real areas of efficiencies and so that has obviously headcount implications to it, which may be what you’re calling layoffs,” Julie Sweet said.