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What happens when a company decides the bottom 5% of employees just… shouldn’t be there anymore?

Well, if you’re Accenture, you call it a strategy.
Everyone else might call it something closer to corporate survival of the fittest.

In this episode, we break down Accenture’s approach to upskilling employees while simultaneously cutting the lowest performers — because nothing motivates people quite like the looming threat of being next on the list.

We dig into:

•  The logic behind performance-based workforce cuts
•  Whether “upskill or you’re out” is actually effective… or just stressful 
•  How these strategies impact employee morale, retention, and culture
•  And whether this is smart HR strategy or just a more polished version of layoffs 

If your company has ever talked about “raising the bar,” this episode might help you understand what that really means.

Spoiler: it’s probably not a team-building exercise.

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