Accenture Manila cuts hundreds of jobs

Hear ye! Hear ye! Latest news from Accenture! Lay-offs another 500 employees! Tsk…tsk…tsk…sad!

Soon enough dadami pa ang layoffs. Late lang ang PH on whats happening because we are at the end of the chain. Kung sa America nawalan ng more than 500,000 jobs and still counting what more will happen sa CC jobs sa pinas which they consider despensable. Prepare for the aftermath, consider it as natural.

Thats right, blame those who are in charged for hiring and putting those people in workbench. Pati ako nadamay sa over staffed ng accenture..hehe

I’m from Accenture. It was a business thing doing the redundany program. The world is facing such a hard time, what do you expect? And I don’t think the term to be used is “layoff” kasi laying off is terminating in bulk those who are “actively” working, ang nangyari sa accenture, most of those who lost their jobs are idle or cannot be rolled-in ASAP. Kaya hindi naman talaga nagtanggal ng mga taong nagtatrabaho. Doon naman sa nagsabi na may plan magtanggal ng almost 25% ng Accenture workers, you are giving malicious information. You have to confirm that first. If Accenture can do that, matakot na tayo sa Pilipinas, baka yung maliliit na kompanya, tuluyan ng mag-sara…Kasi that’s really worse especially with a company who belongs to the league of FEW which performs positively in this times…

I believe that Accenture is doing well right now. Kung may nawawalang clients, meron din namang nadadagdag like the recent (last december ata) deal na tinalo ng accenture ang IBM…It’s just a matter of tightening belts, which is everyone is doing. Parang sa bahay, hindi naman porke’t nagbawas ka ng paggamit ng aircon, mahirap na agad kayo…

Everyone, what’s happening now is a global thing and is not isolated to Accenture. Taking things in the right perspective, the total of 500 employees who were laid off is nothing compared to what other companies have been experiencing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090127/ap_on_bi_ge/economy

Ultimately, it’s really just a painful business decision that companies have to make. In the case of Accenture, simply put, it was just a choice between preserving the jobs of 16K employees versus letting go of the 500 bench people who were idle/unproductive.

Hi may sasabihin lang ako tingin ko off-topic dito pero I just wanna get this out. Matagal ko na itong alam pero since one year na ko wala sa Acenture I don’t care na. Some might be offended pero I resigned because I disliked the management and I have a feeling dati pa lang na maglayoff sila so I looked for a greener pasture. I don’t even care if you think may motive ako for posting this pero just take note of the facts na lang po okay.

I know two people nandyan pa din even now, yung isa taga solutions at yung isa services. Yung services boardmate ko at yung sa solutions friend ko matagal na. Long story short academic honored sa PUP friend ko, but silent hardworker nga lang. Etong boardmate ko inamin nya sakin na all she does is to be nice and close to her lead, you know ‘PR’, then easy lang at work since they don’t have tight deadlines daw and I noticed naman. Eto one time she left her payroll on her desk and computed she earns 30K plus monthly, about 5K more than my friend. Ouch! Knowing 1 year nag JSE and 2 years SE na friend ko, samantalang si services girl 2 years pa lang experienced hire level F (SE din). And honestly on the skill I would say far more madiskarte and ‘detail-oriented’ friend ko compared sa kanya especially in terms of admin tasks. I can’t say anything bad about the personality of the services girl, pero my friend is working herself to death with a client facing project and friendly din naman sya. Does she deserve that lower salary?

By the way, I earn more than them but im on higher level.

My point is being lucky at Acenture depends on who your lead is. I usually encountered the lead of the services girl laging nakangiti pero biased yung guy sa subordinates na likes nya, and so I heard nasa loob daw ang kulo kahit laging happy face. Yung lead ng friend ko sabi nya protects his people, pero hindi nga lang biased. I told my friend about it yesterday..she will resign na this year..I told her to volunteer to join retrenchment instead..sayang severance.

The only reason companies invented (promoted) the idea that salary is confidential and disclosing it is unprofessional..because it gave them the reason to better compensate people ‘advantageous’ and ‘close’ to them while they compensate less for hardworking people they consider ‘useful’ but not of their same ‘class’. They also capitalize the ‘insecurity’ natin that we are being judged by our salary..which is bull obviously dahil sa disparities ng basis even for two people doing the same job in different places. Buti na lang may payscale and glassdoor and the likes so we can anonymously disclose our salaries kahit hindi naman talaga kelangan anonymous. This way we can be informed if we are compensated lesser by our bosses compared to our peers and make better decisions of our precious time and life.

Saka tama yung napansin ng iba dito..parang may backers Accenture ngayon..do they now hire teams of bloggers or commenters to damage control these days? Kasi kahit sa glassdoor yung positive comments almost parang iisa lang theme nung message kahit galing sa multiple posters. Sila din kaya yung backroound investigators? Sigh…

Do you really believe accenture laid off people because of financial crisis? Partially yes..but you need to know their history..that’s not the main reason..yet.
Do you really believe Intel totally closed some assemblies (including Philippines) and cutting 6,000 jobs because of financial crisis? Partially yes..but you also need to know what’s happening at these sites to know the primary reason..especially at Cavite.
Do you really believe Microsoft in process of slashing 5,000 jobs because of financial crisis? Partially yes..but you also need to know the advantage contracting companies provide during times of uncertainty.
Financial crisis..a convenient excuse for house cleaning purposes..why waste it now when it will really affect the company eventually anyway?

so it is not preferable to apply to accenture na?kasi di muna sila natanggap ng hiring?

@sikreto – i understand your pain man… i’m sorry to hear that news… sana makahanap ka na kaagad ng work… ang alam ko programmers overseas merong available (pero kadalasan puro KSA eh)

@others – i agree that we should help those people who were layoffed… sana intindihin din natin sila kung dito sila nagpost ng sama ng loob kasi mahirap ung nattrauma ng ganun… ung feeling na hindi enough ang skills mo (pero in truth, wala ka lang project)… tingin ko some of you who were able to keep their work sa accenture should be really thankful at meron kaung projects… pano na lang kung wala diba? baka kayo ung isa sa 500 na un…

wahh im planning to apply pa nman sa accenture so meaning as a programmer ibig sabhin di n sila muna open for hiring??

I agree with Anonymous. I am working for Accenture and I understand that the company is really going on a difficult situation right now.

As explained, the company is just balancing the number of supply from the current demand that we have. It would be unfair to keep people in the bench naman without definite projects na pwede nila mapuntahan in the next 6-9 months. So the company have to make a decision to give people opportunities outside of Accenture. Sayang din naman ung skills ng mga tao kapag hindi nila nagamit dahil nasa bench lang sila. I know that as much as possible ayaw nila gawin ang redundancy program but they did because they had to.

Siguro hindi lang naman Accenture ang may ganitong dilemma, nauna lang siguro ung company namin. Let’s all hope and pray na lang na malampasan natin ang economic crisis na ito.

so the rumors are really really true.. the financial crisis that’s been going on in the US is already taking it’s toll on call centers here in the Philippines.. ACS and Accenture were the first ones to feel the blow, unfortunately.. but loss of money is also largely felt in companies like HP and Dell considering they both took off annual salary increase and cash incentives.. sad but it’s really happening..

http://blog.edgelacorte.com

It was a business decision. I believe that the management hard time deciding for they know that people will be hurt. Many are blinded and few had the overall view of the true picture of the situation. But life has to go on, these things happened for a Divine reason. Let us just keep praying that will be able to surpass this challenge and be grateful for all blessings we have. This too shall pass…

I think that you are going to see allot more of the bigger call centers in the Philippines doing the same thing.

Allot of bad stuff happening in the US and it’s not going to get any better.

Mass layoff.. that is scary. News like this makes me feel happy that we only got a salary freeze instead of lay offs.

I’m from accenture, Just want to share this to all of you and sana sa lalong madaling panahon maimbestigate na to kasi nakakaTRAUMA talaga lalu na pag waiting ka sa bench parang may taning na buhay mo naghihintay ka nalang oras mo specially kapag bench ka, 6 days na di parin makatulog yun lagi naiisip mo pati family mo naaapektuhan na, redundancy program lagi nasa isip saka “Only a few are still scheduled for notification in the SUCCEEDUNG DAYS….”… (3% – 10% is only a few yun ba nasa isip nila 3% ng total population ng accenture is only a few ok na sana pero kung ang 5 years old mong anak bigyan mo ng 3% ng 16000 pesos mo pambili ng lolipop at uubusin niya ng 1 day is only a few ba yun) and may plan sila na magLayoff pa ng 4000-5000 employees for about 20%-25% ng total population nila hanggang mid year a top secret na usap usapan nila. tactics nila is unti-unti para hindi halata marami silang palusot and panakip butas “NAGHIHIRE PA DAW SILA NGAUN” matagal na kaya nilang strategy na magrecycle ng employees pagmarami ng bench… tanong bakit ngaun “REDUNDANCY PROGRAM” na dahilan nila… sana magsalita na mga head master ng accenture dito kasi “NAKAKATRAUMA TALAGA”

Thats true.I was in Accenture India and situation is not much different.Manager actually asked Team Lead to select their 5 favorites from team of size 10.Team lead selected their pet 5.Later Team lead started finding many mistakes in work from other 5 who are not favorites.Consequently those were put on performance Improvement Plan.In 1 month 5 were asked to go.
Morale-If you want to remain in >,be close to manager/supervisor and butter him/her constantly.
In India companies receive political wrath if they do lay-offs in mass.So companies are opting this trick of soft layoffs.
1)HR approaches you and tells that you have failed in background checking.
2)Supervisor tells you that your performance is not ‘upto the mark’ and hence PIP needed.
Regards
Satish

“@Trixie – not all employees have the same skill-sets and salary ranges.”

This is the age of the multi-tasker specialist and the lazy generalist. Babaliktad ata ang working environment sa mga companies. It used to be specialist don’t have much work on a given day.

Palagay ko karamihan sa mga na let go ay the sort of people that could’ve gone abroad but told themselves OK rin naman salary at benefits sa accenture, dito nalang ako sa pinas.

If Accenture is laying-off its employees, bakit meron pa ding ibo-boot camp? Bakit hindi na lang ilipat nila yung walang ginagawa sa ibang projects.