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AI & Jobs The Australian Financial Review reported on October 18 that Deloitte Australia is cutting about 170 roles, roughly 2% of non-partner staff, while recruiting more than 500 people for an outsourcing arm it wants to triple to A$1B in revenue by 2030. A spokeswoman cited 「a sustained shift in client demand」.
AI & Jobs On September 15 the Financial Times reported KPMG UK will cut about 200 advisory roles, roughly 4% of the practice, with AI and cybersecurity specialists among those affected. A KPMG spokesperson cited 「low levels of attrition」 alongside a 3% drop in advisory revenue.
AI & Jobs Accenture and Google Cloud stood up a joint business group on September 8 and named a 1,000-engineer workforce. The number worth reading is the other one: 37%, saved in the weeks when a contact centre normally adds staff.
AI & Jobs Dentsu will close 70 to 80 international legal entities this fiscal year and 50 to 80 more by FY2028, taking Global HQ costs down about 30% and routing part of the savings into AI and data technology. The plan names no layoff figure.
AI & Jobs IBM named an OpenAI partnership on August 13. The headline is GPT-5.6 inside IBM Consulting Advantage. The load-bearing sentence is that thousands of IBM consultants will sit for OpenAI Partner Network certifications.
AI & Jobs The firm that sells AI transformation ran it on itself for a year. It ended with 194 fewer people and flat output per head, and the CEO says only 20% of the productivity has landed.
AI & Jobs The Financial Times says professional-services firms aren't just cutting juniors — they're redesigning what a first-year is for. The numbers underneath are worse than the framing.
AI & Jobs Accenture booked $865M in restructuring charges last September to exit workers who can't be retrained for AI. By Q2 FY26 (March) the firm had 85,000 AI/data specialists — beating its 80,000-by-year-end target. CEO Julie Sweet's April 29 Fortune line was that the hardest part is still ahead.
AI & Jobs KPMG is cutting roughly 10% of its US audit partners — about 100 of 1,400 — after a voluntary retirement push fell short. Big Four partner-for-life ended on a Thursday in April.