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Professional Services Professional Services And Management Consultancy Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities 70 - Activities Of Head Offices; Management Consultancy Activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 April 2024
Employment effect (start)
5 May 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
The Consultancy and Professional services firm Accenture is opening two Centres specialised in artificial intelligence (AI) generation in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain), with an estimation of 1,000 new jobs created at the very short run and with a final aim to reach 3,000 new jobs in the coming months/years. The company has undertaken over 700 generational AI projects at global level, of which over 70 have been conducted with some of the most relevant Spanish public and private organisations.
The company has stated that the development of this AI-based market niche will create additional job needs. The company, aware of the labour shortage problem of professionals in the area, will maintain its strategy of attracting and training talent in AI. The opening of these generative AI centres is part of Accenture's global commitment to this technology, which is quantified at an investment of 3,000 million dollars in the period 2023-2026.
The company also announced a previous employment creation in 2019 Accenture-2019-ES
Eurofound (2024), Accenture, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 201089, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201089.
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