Technology consulting group Accenture is aiming to tap into the defence and aerospace industries by setting up a hub in South Australia after a painful wave of redundancies elsewhere in its Australian business. Bob Easton, the Australasian chairman of Accenture, said the goal was to employ up to 2000 people over the next three to five years in the Adelaide office, which now has a workforce of about 150.
Accenture made 180 people redundant from its local workforce of 5000 in the weeks leading up to September 1 as part of a global cost-cutting drive by the US-listed company.
That has been completed and Accenture is concentrating on sectors deemed higher growth. Defence spending is on the rise as geopolitical tensions rise around the world and relations between Australia and China worsen....MORE
