Accenture to cut 890 jobs from Irish operations

Accenture 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 of global job reductions announced in March, the IT consulting firm said on Monday.

The announcement represented one of the largest batch of IT layoffs in Ireland, which is the European hub for some of the biggest global technology firms.

Accenture is one of Ireland’s largest foreign multinational employers with over 6,500 staff. The 1,290 redundancies sought this year represent close to 20 per cent of its Irish workforce and compares to the 2.5 per cent of its global workforce it set out to cut in March.