"We are investing in upskilling our reinventors, which is our primary strategy,"
"We are exiting on a compressed timeline, people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need."
"Our number-one strategy is upskilling, given the skills we need, and we've had a lot of experience in upskilling, we're trying to, in a very compressed timeline, where we don't have a viable path for skilling, sort of exiting people so we can get more of the skills in we need."
Accenture is investing in staff training to adopt AI and plans to exit employees in roles that cannot be augmented by AI or reskilled. The company allocated $865 million of one-time charges over two quarters for business reoptimization. Accenture reports 77,000 trained AI professionals, up from 40,000 in 2023, and 550,000 workers with basic AI knowledge. Revenue from generative and agentic AI services tripled to $2.7 billion in fiscal 2025, and AI-related bookings rose to $5.9 billion. Hiring globally increased to recruit candidates with requisite AI skills. US government procurement declined amid administration cost cuts, reducing that contract segment.
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