Accenture has announced an ambitious reorganization of its template on a global scale as part of a restructuring plan valued at 865 million dollars. The measure is part of its transition to a business model focused on artificial intelligence, which already represents a strategic axis for its business. As part of this transformation, the consultant has initiated an employee output process that, according to their evaluation, cannot be reconsidered for the profiles required by the new technological era.

“We are accelerating the decoupling of those profiles in which the recipation is not a viable way, based on our experience”explained Julie Sweet, president and world CEO of Accenture.

In the last three months, the global workforce has been reduced to more than 11,000 people, from 791,000 to 779,000 employees. The company has not detailed how many of these cuts are due exclusively to this structural adjustment, but it has reported that the derivative costs – mainly compensation – amounted to 615 million dollars in the last quarter, and that it is expected to allocate another 250 million in the current fiscal quarter.

The era of reinventors

Despite the cuts, Accenture maintains its commitment to increase its template throughout 2026, provided that it is profiles aligned with the new digital challenges. In this context, the company has reinforced its commitment to what it calls the “Reinventors”: Professionals with the capacity to adapt, acquire new technological skills and generate value in areas such as artificial intelligence, data, automation and digital transformation. “We are investing in the training of our reinventors, which is our main strategy”declares Sweet.

Currently, 77,000 employees already have specialized training in AI or data, almost double the 40,000 registered by the company two years ago. This capacity reinforcement has allowed projects related to generative artificial intelligence to suppose $ 5.1 billion in new hiring, compared to the 3,000 million of the previous year.

This structural turn responds, in part, to a less favorable macroeconomic environment. As the company itself recognizes in its annual fiscal report, the global demand for consulting services has slowed down. Companies maintain their investments in large -scale digital transformation projects, but show greater caution against more tactical or lower tour initiatives. To this is added the negative impact of the austerity policy promoted by the US Public Administration, which has canceled technological contracts and slowed down the award processes. The federal government historically represents 8% of Accenture’s income.

As a result, the company anticipates moderate growth of between 2% and 5% for fiscal year 2026, compared to 7% growth recorded in 2025, when it reached a turnover of 69.7 billion dollars and a net profit of 7,830 million.

This bet, however, is not exempt from internal tensions. As the adoption of AI tools is generalized, recent studies alert the rise of the call Workslop: Automatically generated contents without criteria or supervision, which transfer the cognitive effort to the receiver and take real productivity. In this scenario, the challenge is not only to incorporate technology, but generate an organizational culture capable of using it with purpose and responsibility.

However, Accenture reaffirms its willingness to lead the global digital transition. And it will make it promoting a more specialized template and aligned with the challenges of the present, which requires reinventing itself to remain relevant.