Trending @Accenture; What do you think about the ongoing bench problem in Accenture?
Makes me very concerned. 🫣 The bench is very bloated right now.
The problem is that Accenture is matching today's hiring to tomorrow's demand, to get your talent pyramid right. Typically, your scarcest resource in any sort of high-demand period is competent, experienced project managers, of approximately 3 years tenure. So recruiting targets should be about predicting demand 3 years out.
They also distribute the vast majority of their profits to current Heads in the year they are made, or right after, retaining little within the firm. Heads actually have attrition levels similar from juniors(around 3 years), due to lifestyle, outside offers, and political infighting combined with personal ambition.
So they are incentivized to make headcount and recruiting decisions based on current demand because they don't care about staying for longer at the firm. This is a mismatch.
What do you think? I am literally sleepless at night with anxiety about getting laid off and it is affecting my health now.
Can someone please tell me immediately after notice period end date I should be joining the new company or a gap of 1 week is okay? For e.g if I ask HR after negotiating to reduce notice period my last working day will be 10 th may and my doj at new organisation is 20 may so the gap of 10 days is okay? Or I should immediately join new org day after my last working day in old org?
The management is the main problem. They just don't care. We all can see a lot of people are on the bench. The project needs more resources but they are just not taking them. My college and I resigned from Accenture during the probation period. And now our project is trying to force us to serve more days than it should be. As they are saying they are not able to find the replacements that fast. They already increased mine to 14 more days.
14 days? Don't do any extra work for half an hour also. They will not reward you for any of these extra help you provide.
I am fighting but they are updated from 30 days to 90 days in the system. I am mailing and asking but they are not giving the response. The best option that I had to negotiate and finish it on common ground.
Cool just enjoy
Nothing will happen you will get a project soon
You are talking from AIOC , R&C or ATCI perspective? You are a part of which division?
and yet they're hiring very aggressively
my bench experience was awesome, 3 months no work no one to monitor. during that time i was struggling with family issues, my father underwent surgery so got time to take care of him. i studied alot and kept myself prepared for interviews, luckily got a good project and designation. Touchwood!
The bench problem is real! More real than you can imagine..
