If you can't use AI then it's bye bye, Accenture tells staff (www.theregister.com)

Accenture told employees in its FY2025 results that staff who cannot use AI and cannot be reskilled into AI-augmented roles will be exited as part of a compressed “business reoptimization” plan. CEO Julie Sweet framed upskilling as the primary strategy — the firm now claims 77,000 trained AI professionals (up from 40,000 in 2023) and 550,000 workers with basic AI knowledge — but said it will take one-time charges of $865 million over two quarters to remove roles where reskilling isn’t viable. The move signals a blunt, time‑sensitive push to shift the workforce toward AI-capable roles and accelerate hiring where needed. For the AI/ML community this is both an opportunity and a warning: Accenture’s GenAI and agentic-AI services tripled revenue year-over-year to $2.7 billion and bookings nearly doubled to $5.9 billion, showing strong commercial demand for implementation expertise. The company’s overall revenue rose to $69.7 billion with $7.8 billion net income, even as US government procurement softened. Implications include surging demand for practical ML/system integration skills, greater emphasis on deployable GenAI and agentic systems, and more consulting work monetizing AI — while roles that can’t be AI-augmented face accelerated displacement.