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United Kingdom

London at the epicentre of AI talent boom New Accenture research shows a sharp rebound in UK tech hiring – with London leading a national surge in demand for AI talent.
10 June 2025
United Kingdom

UK AI talent pool increasingly shifting to North West A new study from Accenture has found that the UK’s technology talent pool enjoyed double-digit growth in the last six months.
01 August 2024
South Africa

South Africa's workforce needs to move faster to digitalise Speed, innovation and collaboration are of the essence when it comes to nurturing South Africa’s future workforce, according to CEO of Mercer South Africa Tamara Parker.
13 February 2020
United Kingdom

Lacking digital skills costs £10 billion in lost productivity The UK is facing a massive economic loss in productivity, resulting from a failure by bosses to invest in digital-orientated education in the workplace.
10 February 2020
South Africa

First graduates emerge from Accenture's EmployAbility Cadet Programme Having commenced in September 2016, Accenture’s EmployAbility Cadet Programme has produced its first set of graduates.
18 December 2019
Middle East

Accenture joins with Al Maskari on UAE employment initiatives
30 May 2019
South Africa

Government emphasis is making South Africa's BPS sector globally competitive South Africa’s renewed focus on generating greater foreign investment is increasingly reliant on the Business Process Services (BPS) segment, among others, according to Managing Director for Operatio
04 April 2019
United Kingdom

Accenture's Karmarama to expand with hire of 100 staff Karmarama plans to expand its London headcount by a third in 2019, as parent company Accenture Interactive looks to double down on accelerating growth in recent years.
03 December 2018
United Kingdom

Accenture to pay Irish Google outsourcing staff living wage Following mounting criticism in the court of public opinion, the Irish wing of global consulting firm Accenture has announced it will hence forth pay the living wage to its outsourced staff working o
12 October 2018
United Kingdom

Digital skills gap could cost UK £141 billion in GDP growth If G20 countries fail to adapt to meet the needs of the new technological era, they could be in line to miss out on as much as $1.5 trillion in GDP growth over the next 10 years.
03 October 2018
South Africa

Faster skill training could halve the number of jobs threatened by automation Accenture’s position on the impact of automation on the jobs market is that a new breed of hybrid jobs will emerge, at the intersection between manual and automated labour.
25 April 2018
United Kingdom

Muslim employee sues Accenture for lower pay, bonus and demotion The US arm body of Accenture is being sued for racial discrimination for the second time in as many years, following allegations from Mohammed Ali.
01 November 2017
United Kingdom

Accenture and READ join forces to empower rural Indian women Accenture and READ India have partnered to launch a READ Centre, a hub which will provide the Bagepalli region in India with a range of services.
07 October 2016
India

Accenture and READ join forces to empower rural Indian women Accenture and READ India have partnered to launch a READ Centre, a hub which will provide the Bagepalli region in India with a library, computer room, women's section, children's room, and training h
07 October 2016
United Kingdom

Digital fluency can accelerate transition to gender parity Improving digital fluency among women improves gender equality.
08 March 2016
United Kingdom

UK labour market on the rise, finds employment study The UK has started adding more and more permanent jobs, cementing the recovery.
06 January 2016
United Kingdom

Accenture partners with Code.org and Hour of Code Yesterday the Hour of Code campaign kicked off as part of the Computer Science Education Week , a global initiative with the aim of stimulating millions of students globally to follow a one-hour intr
08 December 2015
United Kingdom

Accenture: Labour agencies seeking improved metrics Many governments have employment programmes aimed at helping those temporarily between jobs and to measure the effectiveness of those programmes they have systems in place. Yet are these systems effective? In a recent survey, Accenture finds that a
03 September 2015
United Kingdom

Accenture: Majority of UK graduates are underemployed UK graduates look at the employment world with rosy coloured spectacles. While 72% of 2015 grads expect to find full time work after graduation, only 58% of those graduating in 2013 and 2014 did so. Furthermore, of those that did find employment, 6
11 August 2015
United Kingdom

Accenture donation helps secure 3,500 jobs in UK Consulting firm Accenture has reinforced its commitment to youth charity The Prince’s Trust by donating an additional amount of £200,000 – to be used for skills training for 7,000 young people in the UK. The training will be part
20 March 2015
United Kingdom

Consultancy Accenture supports Girl Geeks Campus Accenture has announced it is supporting the Girl Geeks Campus set up by Girl Geeks - a community that stimulates women to pursue a carrer in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
11 March 2015
United Kingdom

Ashoka and Accenture launch new joint job initiative Accenture has signed a partnership with Ashoka, a global association of social entrepreneurs, to establish a joint job initiative: the Talent Growth Initiative.
12 January 2015
United Kingdom

5 consulting firms named Champion in Social Mobility To battle the difficult social upward mobility path for young people, the UK Government has appointed 12 of UK’s best-known companies as ‘Champions in Social Mobility’.
25 November 2014
United Kingdom

Accenture and E&Y most gay-friendly employers Accenture has been named the most gay-friendly employer of Great Britain. Other advisory firms in the Top 100 are Ernst & Young, IBM, a h
23 January 2013

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