New Delhi: Employees who were found to have obtained jobs at the company using forged documents and experience letters were sacked by Accenture's India division. The number of affected employees is unknown. Twitter exchanges indicate that the company may have let rid of "thousands" of workers on this count but the exact number is still unconfirmed.


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“We operate under a strict Code of Business Ethics and have zero tolerance for any non-adherence. We have discovered an effort to use documentation and experience letters from fraudulent companies to obtain offers of employment from Accenture in India. As a result, we have exited people who we confirmed took advantage of this scheme. We have taken action to ensure that there will be no impact on our ability to serve our clients. We are continuing to hire, and honor existing job offers for qualified candidates,” said Accenture in a statement, without revealing the exact number of sacked employees.


According to sources in the recruitment sector, the pandemic created an avalanche of chances for software companies, forcing them to quickly onboard thousands of employees to work on projects. According to B.S. Murthy, CEO of Leadership Capital, a spike in orders during the pandemic forced the industry to rush its hiring process.


The majority of HROs are currently working on credential checks of COVID recruits, he continued.