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BENGALURU: Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said H-1B visas are not a large interest for the company, noting that conscionable 5% of its US workforce is connected specified visas."This is truly a non-issue due to the fact that we lone person astir 5% of our radical successful the US connected H-1B visas, and they're for truly specialised acquisition and skills for our clients.
Not thing that's truly a large interaction connected Accenture," she said during an net telephone connected Thursday.A Kotak Institutional Equities study showed that Accenture steadily reduced its reliance connected H-1B visas, with archetypal approvals dropping to 190 successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025, compared with 3,442 successful 2015.(see graphic)
Accenture's headcount declined by 11,419 sequentially successful the Sept quarter, bringing the full to 7.7 lakh employees, including much than 3.5 lakh successful India.Accenture CFO Angie Park said the institution launched a six-month concern optimisation programme successful Q4, signaling a $615-million charge, with an further $250 cardinal expected successful Q1, taking the full to astir $865 million. "The concern optimisation programme has 2 parts: 1 related to accelerated endowment rotation that Julie mentioned, which reflects severance associated with headcount reductions that we are making successful a compressed timeline, and second, related to the divestiture of 2 acquisitions that are nary longer aligned with our strategical priorities.
These actions volition effect successful outgo savings, which volition beryllium reinvested successful our radical and our business," Park said.
For FY25, Accenture reported gross roseate 7%, with maturation crossed each verticals and geographies. The operating borderline roseate to 15.6%, expanding by 10 ground points (100bps = 1 percent point) from the erstwhile year. Of the full gross growth, 4% was integrated and 3% was inorganic. Accenture follows a Sept-Aug fiscal year. In Q4, gross was up 4.5% with each geographies reporting growth, though healthcare declined 3%, portion different verticals expanded. By manufacture group, media & exertion grew 6%, BFSI roseate 10%, wellness & nationalist work accrued 7%, and products precocious 8%. Regionally, Q4 revenues grew 5% successful section currency successful the Americas, 3% successful EMEA, and 6% successful Asia-Pacific.
