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The core sentence from the article:

“We are exiting on a compressed timeline people where reskilling, based on our experience, is not a viable path for the skills we need,” chief executive Julie Sweet told analysts on a conference call."



If you feed that into HR-GPT, it translates it like thus:

“We’re exiting older staff as quickly as possible to avoid a sueball like IBM, because we do not feel it’s worthwhile reskilling them versus hiring cheaper, younger people.”

Just my speculative translation based on prior experiences. If you use my comment in a sueball against Accenture for age discrimination, boy howdy will you be disappointed in the outcome.


>In 2023, Sweet's total compensation at Accenture was $31.6 million, or 1,526 times what the median employee at Accenture earned that same year without a cost-of-living adjustment.


It's amazing what you can learn on a conference call to analysts.




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