Accenture’s ‘Low Performer’ Cuts — Smart HR or Corporate Hunger Games?
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The episode discusses Accenture's strategy of cutting the bottom 5% of employees while promoting upskilling among the remaining workforce.
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a company decides the bottom 5% of employees just… shouldn’t be there anymore? Well, if you’re Accenture, you call it a strategy. Everyone else might call it something closer to corporate survival of the fittest. In this episode, we break down Accenture’s approach to upskilling employees while simultaneously cutting the lowest performers — because nothing motivates people quite like the looming threat of being next on the list. We dig into: The logic ...
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