Accenture, which ended November 2024 with 799,000 employees, added 24,000 employees in the June-August 2024 period and 25,000 employees in the three months through November 2024. Its new recruits in the last six months alone make up about 6% of its overall workforce.
Accenture follows a September-August accounting year.
Recovery on cards?
India’s $254-billion software services industry, with big names like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd, Infosys Ltd, HCL Technologies Ltd, Wipro Ltd, and Tech Mahindra Ltd, reported their slowest revenue growth of 3.3% last year due to macroeconomic uncertainties.
TCS, Infosys, and HCLTech grew 4.1%, 1.9%, and 5.4% on a yearly basis to respectively report $29.1 billion, $18.6 billion, and $13.3 billion in revenue for the year ended March 2024. Wipro and Tech Mahindra reported a yearly decline in revenue…