Accenture
Irish-American professional services company
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| February 2025 | Accenture made significant changes to its diversity and inclusion policies, including discontinuing global employee representation goals, pausing external diversity benchmarking surveys, and reevaluating external partnerships, reportedly to comply with Presidential directives regarding federal agency contracts. |
| February 2025 | Vice News reported an anonymous former Accenture employee's account of working on Meta's WhatsApp team, involving reviewing images for child sexual abuse content. The employee disclosed coping with the traumatic work through substance abuse and alleged missed opportunities to protect children, including a claim about a colleague previously arrested for possessing child abuse materials. |
| 2024 | Reported annual revenues of $64.9 billion, maintaining its status as a Fortune Global 500 company. |
| 2023 | Continued growth with revenue reaching $64.111 billion and workforce expanding to 733,000 employees. |
| March 2023 | Accenture announced plans to eliminate 19,000 jobs out of its 738,000 employee workforce over an 18-month period, citing reduced revenue forecasts. |
| 2022 | Revenue surged to $61.594 billion with 721,000 employees, marking a substantial expansion of business operations. |
| 2021 | Significant growth with revenue jumping to $50.533 billion and employee count increasing to 624,000, demonstrating strong post-pandemic recovery. |
| August 2021 | Accenture confirmed a significant data breach resulting from a ransomware attack, with attackers reportedly stealing six terabytes of sensitive data. |
| 2020 | Despite global pandemic challenges, Accenture increased revenue to $44.327 billion and maintained 506,000 employees. |
| 2019 | US Customs and Border Protection terminated the recruitment contract with Accenture due to poor performance and failure to meet hiring targets. |
| 2019 | Company expanded to 505,000 employees and increased revenue to $43.215 billion, showing continued growth and market expansion. |
| September 2019 | Julie Sweet was appointed as the new CEO of Accenture, succeeding the interim leadership. |
| February 2019 | Accenture paid $200 million to Swiss authorities to resolve tax claims related to transfer pricing arrangements, indicating a significant financial settlement addressing tax practice controversies. |
| February 2019 | Contractors from Accenture's Austin, Texas location wrote an open letter to Facebook highlighting poor working conditions for content moderators, describing a 'Big Brother environment' with restricted work breaks and strict non-disclosure agreements. A counselor noted the potential for content moderators to develop post-traumatic stress disorder due to evaluating graphic content. |
| January 2019 | Pierre Nanterme stepped down as CEO due to health reasons, with David Rowland named as interim CEO. |
| 2018 | Accenture reported $41.603 billion in revenue with 459,000 employees, marking a significant year in the company's growth. |
| December 2018 | The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General published a report critiquing Accenture's performance, revealing that the company had been paid $13.6M but had only hired two agents against a contract goal of 7,500 over 5 years. |
| June 2018 | Accenture was awarded a $297 million contract by US Customs and Border Protection to recruit 7,500 officers, with the company charging nearly $40,000 per hire. |
| January 2011 | Pierre Nanterme replaced William D. Green as the CEO of Accenture. |
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