Accenture ranks as Top Workplace among San Antonio’s large employers

“We person to put successful our people,” she said. “We are lone palmy if our radical are successful.”

Diversity and inclusion is besides a apical precedence astatine the Fortune 500 company, which has committed to reaching a gender-balanced workforce by 2025 and expanding the fig of radical of colour successful enforcement roles, Lange said. Accenture acceptable a extremity successful 2015 to prosecute 5,000 subject veterans and spouses by the extremity of 2020, which the steadfast said it surpassed.

“Creating opportunities for individuals is not conscionable a substance of taste oregon sex diversity, but truly knowing the diverseness that each idiosyncratic individual brings and that their lived experiences are different,” Lange said. “For each antithetic acquisition we tin bring in, it makes our institution a amended place.”

The institution earned the Top Workplaces grant for ample employers successful the San Antonio country with astatine slightest 500 workers, placing archetypal among 12 participants. It was followed by Security Service Federal Credit Union successful 2nd and Broadway Bank successful third.

Employees were asked to nominate their institution for the San Antonio Express-News Top Workplaces competition. The paper partnered with Philadelphia-based Energage, which surveyed workers and ranked the area’s Top Workplaces based connected their feedback.

In survey responses, workers said Accenture “strongly encourages work-life balance,” enables them to “learn and grow” and “cares for their employees.” They praised the company’s flexible enactment options, compensation, benefits and grooming for learning caller skills.

“I americium treated with respect and valued arsenic an employee,” 1 idiosyncratic said. “I person continued to get trained to assistance my vocation way turn and my absorption squad pushes maine extracurricular my comfortableness portion to determination forward.”

“The radical I enactment with marque the occupation much enjoyable and teamwork is simply a mode of life,” different worker said. “Even erstwhile I consciousness stressed I cognize my squad has my backmost and that they attraction astir what is happening. The institution truly seems to enactment the employees archetypal astatine times and it makes each the difference. Knowing that they person enactment successful spot resources that beforehand mindfulness, inclusion, and intelligence wellness consciousness is conscionable fantastic.”

Accenture was founded successful 1951 and provides exertion and consulting services to large companies and governments.

The steadfast has implicit 500,000 employees globally, including astir 2,000 successful the San Antonio area. It has 3 main offices locally, including 1 for intelligent operations and automation and 2 for precocious technologies.

“Our biggest absorption wrong of the San Antonio country is providing work to the national authorities and helping the nation’s payer wealth spell champion astatine improving the mode that we tin service and enactment each idiosyncratic wrong the United States,” Lange said.

Accenture’s employees started moving remotely astatine the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Many are inactive moving from home, though they person the enactment to enactment successful the bureau oregon divided their clip betwixt the two, Lange said.

“Shifting into the pandemic allowed america to supply immoderate of the lessons learned that we’ve had successful much of a virtual exemplary — allowed america to amended better and honestly alteration immoderate of our clients’ businesses arsenic they adapted to a virtual world,” Lange said.

“We had each the channels indispensable to proceed concern arsenic accustomed and truly not skip a beat,” she added. “I deliberation the 1 happening we’ve benignant of missed is seeing faces and hugging and keeping that assemblage that we person successful office.”

The institution said its benefits bundle includes 401(k) lucifer and savings plans; reimbursement for back-up babelike care, adoption and fertility costs; 16 weeks of maternity leave; 8 weeks of superior caregiver leave; and a customized app with fittingness and nutrition tracking, encephalon games and steadfast gestation coaching. It besides offers bosom beverage shipping for mothers who are traveling.

Accenture provides volunteer, mentor and fundraising enactment to San Antonio Sports, SA Yes, ChildSafe, Junior Achievement, March of Dimes and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department.

The steadfast besides offers flexible enactment arrangements, including moving from home, flexible hours and telecommuting. That was important to Lange, who was raised by a stay-at-home parent she said she wanted to emulate erstwhile she became a genitor herself.

“I truly wanted to marque definite that I tin beryllium a large mom, conscionable arsenic my ma was to me,” Lange said. “Accenture has truthful overmuch flexibility successful making definite we person distant enactment opportunities, adjacent earlier the pandemic.

“We admit that if a idiosyncratic can’t bring their champion aforesaid to work, we are going to beryllium hurting arsenic a company,” she added. “We truly were pushed to beryllium innovative successful being capable to enactment idiosyncratic equilibrium for individuals.”

An worker who participated successful the survey echoed Lange.

Accenture “allows maine to beryllium flexible with my enactment and kids schoolhouse schedule,” the idiosyncratic said. “They recognize being a ma and moving full-time has its conflicts, but they let maine to beryllium flexible with my docket successful bid to accommodate the drop-off and pick-up times for school.”

madison.iszler@express-news.net