Anybody work for Accenture?

RavingMad

Just been announced this week that our IT dept is being outsourced to Accenture and so we'll be tuped over to them in Sept.

Our IT dept is probably over 100 people and I'm a supervisor of a regional desktop support team.

Just wondering if anyone has been in the same boat? I suppose I'm trying to find out if we're going to be laid off and they bring in their own work force?

Thanks

PlutoinCapricorn

Well, they may have changed since I saw this happen many years ago, but what they did then was to make some people redundant immediately, to offer some of the others a place as a "corporate clone" and to keep the remainder on under their old terms. The chosen ones were the smartest, they fit the company image. They got rid of freelancers as they had plenty of their own people ready to move in.

RavingMad

We do have quite a few contractors on the books, so I'm hoping that will save them a few quid when they go. I'm guessing the helpdesk will be done away with as will a few other depts. Just hoping they keep on the regional PC support bods

Atelier

Helpdesks are always a target when IT is outsourced. Accenture will alrelady have a team and processes in place for other customers so they just extend that to include your company. Most likely off-shore as well.

Companies realise that the old model of simply outsourcing development activities does not work because it becomes a blame culture where one says "you did not tell me to do that" and the other says "why didn't you clarify it if you didn't understand". So they want the outsourcer to own and be responsible for the whole process.

Development, testing, DBAs, development project managers can largely disappear off-site leaving the business analysts and hands-on desktop support staff.

RavingMad wrote: »

We do have quite a few contractors on the books, so I'm hoping that will save them a few quid when they go. I'm guessing the helpdesk will be done away with as will a few other depts. Just hoping they keep on the regional PC support bods

gmidgley

I worked for Accenture and was TUPE'd accross a few years ago. Accenture have just made an awful lot of redundancies, so look out for that, but prepared to take a lot in all at once.......its a mine field!