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Accenture (ACN)
A global services firm read by description. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-08-31, filed 2025-10-10. Ranked 4 of the 24 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
A professional services company whose filing states one total and the countries where most people work, so the three patterns come from its description of consulting and managed services rather than from counts.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 30% now, 54% at the end of 2027, 66% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 22% people work and 7% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 30% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 53% becomes checking a model's work and 11% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
779,000 employees as of 2025-08-31 (stated). The filing does not state a U.S. count; it says the majority of its people are in India, the Philippines and the U.S., with offices and operations in 52 countries.
The filing: “As of August 31, 2025, we employed approximately 779,000 people.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 55% | By (c): the filing states no headcount by type of work, so the shares follow its description of two types of work, consulting and managed services, delivered by 'AI, data and technology specialists' with most people in India and the Philippines; technology delivery, systems integration and application services are the computer systems design pattern and the largest part. |
| Business Support Services | 25% | By (c): managed services include operations work the filing describes as running business processes for clients, which BLS counts in business support services; no count is stated, so the share is read from the description. |
| Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services | 20% | By (c): strategy and consulting, Song and Industry X are described as consulting capabilities across five industry groups, read into the management consulting pattern by description; the filing's count of about 77,000 AI and data practitioners is a skill count, not a split by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 779,000 people, up from about 774,000 a year earlier; about 97,000 promoted in fiscal 2025; utilization 92%; voluntary attrition 14%; about 77,000 AI and data practitioners. The majority of its people are in India, the Philippines and the U.S.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Computer Systems Design and Related Services, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Cognizant (CTSH, 351,600 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- IBM (IBM, 264,300 employees)23% now, 67% by 2028
- General Dynamics Corporation (GD, 117,000 employees)18% now, 46% by 2028
- DXC Technology Company (DXC, 115,000 employees)26% now, 68% by 2028
- Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. (KD, 72,000 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- EPAM Systems, Inc. (EPAM, 62,850 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
66 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing presents AI as the center of its strategy (to be 'the most AI-enabled, client-focused, great place to work in the world', with a $3 billion generative AI investment begun in fiscal 2023) and reports about 77,000 AI and data practitioners against a goal of 80,000 by the end of fiscal 2026.
- “Business Overview Accenture is a leading solutions and global professional services company that helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 779,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships.”
- “Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most AI-enabled, client-focused, great place to work in the world.”
- “For example, our early and decisive decision in fiscal 2023 to invest significantly to become a leader in generative AI with a $3 billion multi-year investment has positioned us to capture this new area of spend for our clients.”
- “Geographic Markets Our three geographic markets-Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific-bring together our Reinvention Services in teams, which typically consist of industry and functional experts, AI, data and technology specialists and professionals with local market knowledge and experience, to meet client needs.”
- “With this change, our client-focused growth model is bringing together all our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X, including deep industry and functional expertise across these capabilities, plus our technology ecosystem partnerships, to create more leading solutions faster and embed AI and data more easily into creating and delivering our solu...”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 779,000 | 2025-10-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-08-31 | 774,000 | 2024-10-10 | 10-K |
| 2023-08-31 | 733,000 | 2023-10-12 | 10-K |
| 2022-08-31 | 721,000 | 2022-10-12 | 10-K |
| 2021-08-31 | 624,000 | 2021-10-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-08-31 | 506,000 | 2020-10-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-08-31 | 492,000 | 2019-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2018-08-31 | 459,000 | 2018-10-24 | 10-K |
| 2017-08-31 | 425,000 | 2017-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-08-31 | 384,000 | 2016-10-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-08-31 | 358,000 | 2015-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2014-08-31 | 305,000 | 2014-10-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-08-31 | 275,000 | 2013-10-29 | 10-K |
| 2012-08-31 | 257,000 | 2012-10-30 | 10-K |
| 2011-08-31 | 236,000 | 2011-10-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-08-31 | 204,000 | 2010-10-26 | 10-K |
| 2009-08-31 | 177,000 | 2009-10-19 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No split of the workforce by type of work or by country is stated; the pattern shares follow the business description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated; most people are abroad by the filing's own words.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001467373-25-000217, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Accenture's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 30% now and 66% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Accenture's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Accenture employ?
- 779,000 as of August 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending August 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Accenture's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Computer Systems Design and Related Services; by those patterns the work is about 71% desk work, 22% people work and 7% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Accenture's annual report say about AI?
- 66 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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