Accenture Federal Services employees will not be included in parent’s nearly 20K layoffs

Accenture Federal Services employees will be spared from a recent massive layoff announcement, officials confirmed to Technical.ly.

Accenture Federal Services is an Arlington, Virginia-based, wholly-owned subsidiary of consulting firm Accenture, which said in a filing last week that it would be laying off 19,000 employees over the next 18 months. That accounts for about 2.5% of the company’s workforce, and Accenture said it would mainly cut jobs in back office roles.

“While we continue to hire, especially to support our strategic growth priorities, during the second quarter of fiscal 2023, we initiated actions to streamline our operations and transform our non-billable corporate functions to reduce costs. Over the next 18 months, these actions are expected to result in the departure of approximately 19,000 people (or 2.5% of our current workforce), and we expect over half of these departures will consist of people in our non-billable corporate functions,” the filing read.

In an email to Technical.ly, spokesperson Dawn Onley confirmed that Accenture Federal “is not impacted by these changes.” The company did not immediately answer questions on why Accenture Federal was spared from layoffs or how many employees are located in the DC region; in 2021, the company said it had 10,500 in total. Accenture Federal frequently partners with the federal government in contracting deals and the company also hosts a digital studio in DC.

Consulting and tech firms have been hit by several layoffs in 2023 and late 2022. In February, McKinsey said it would be cutting 2,000 jobs and KPMG laid off about 700 folks. So far, 18,000 employees have been laid off at Amazon, along with 10,000 at Microsoft and many more at other Big Tech firms.