Accenture spends $1B in training every year - ETtech

Accenture is spending $1 billion in re-training training its employees every year as the company sees its customers are increasingly demanding newer technology-led services. The tech services major said it has trained nearly 80% of its technology services employees in technologies such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing - broadly referred as digital technologies. Digital currently contributes more than 60% of Accenture's $43.2 billion revenue. Nearly 55% of Accenture's employees are in technology services roles globally. "We had (nearly) 200000 people across 180 countries and we pitched that as our strength. One of the clients once asked me it is your strength or weakness, do you really need so many people in future. It was a big question at that point of time we took decision to rotate to new. So our investment in talent is close to a billion dollar globally and nearly 80% of tech services talent are trained in new," said Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive, Accenture Technology Services.