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[dasmo]

What do they even do? That’s a huge company for a “business consultant firm”.

[AllseeingEye]

What do they even do? That’s a huge company for a “business consultant firm”.

 

They are a global professional/management services giant, originally founded as the Arthur Anderson accountancy group in the 1950's. The question is what don't they do - which isn't much. They offer a broad array of services including risk management, supply chain management, operations solutions, information technology security, cloud services, and data centers - to name but some of them. That's just Canada. In other markets they provide services above and beyond these mentioned here. They're been a 'player' far longer - 60+ some odd years - than most IT global consulting or cloud providers have existed.

[Mike K.]

I wonder if it’s one of those companies that if they shed 90% of their work force, they’d still accomplish everything they accomplish now. But their budget would be a heck of a lot smaller.

[spanky123]

I wonder if it’s one of those companies that if they shed 90% of their work force, they’d still accomplish everything they accomplish now. But their budget would be a heck of a lot smaller.

 

They charge people out by the hour. Not enough hours and you get cut. Simple business model.

[spanky123]

Most of the people who are losing their jobs in tech are finding other work for the time being although it is quite frequently at a lower wage then they had been making previously. Unemployment rate stays low but economic climate darkens.

[lanforod]

The tech carnage continues - Accenture is in process of dumping 19,000 staff, roughly 2.5% of its global workforce although it still leaves nearly 720k people on the payroll:

 

https://www.cnn.com/...9000/index.html

 

Meh. They are still way up over the year.

Used to work there. Back when they had less than 200k on the payroll.

Edited by lanforod, 23 March 2023 - 02:48 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

n alleged kidnapping, duped investors and losses topping $40 million — those are some of the newest details emerging as authorities try to unravel what Canada's self-proclaimed Crypto King did with the money investors gave him.

According to claims spelled out in a new trustee report from bankruptcy proceedings against Aiden Pleterski, while authorities were trying to track down millions of dollars given to him to invest, the 24-year-old was allegedly kidnapped in the middle of the night last December. The trustee believed much of it went to fuel a lavish lifestyle and that very little of it was actually invested.

Pleterski's father told the trustee Pleterski was driven around Southern Ontario, beaten and tortured. Pleterski's landlord said he got a call asking for ransom of $3 million.


https://www.cbc.ca/n...apped-1.6790615

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 03:55 PM.

[spanky123]

^ Not to mention that the target market, techies and bankers, are all getting smoked.

[Victoria Watcher]

How is that guy not charged criminally?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, Yesterday, 06:14 PM.