Companies
Revealed: Exactly where the axe is falling inside Accenture’s Irish base
News of company’s nearly nine hundred redundancies in Ireland raises fears that wave of job cuts in sector will continue
Accenture’s move to lay off nearly 900 workers at its Irish operation last week marked the biggest round of job cuts in this country for at least three years, and is a sign that the downturn in the tech sector is far from over.
The consultancy giant, which employs 700,000 staff including more than 6,000 in Ireland, last week signalled that it was cutting 890 roles here – a move that will bring to 1,300 ...