{"id":558365,"date":"2026-08-04T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:00:09","slug":"qantas-job-outsourcing-india-plans-for-project-iq-in-discussions-with-accenture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/558365\/","title":{"rendered":"Qantas job outsourcing India plans for Project iQ in discussions with Accenture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qantas is in advanced discussions to outsource up to 1000 positions to India as part of a deal with consulting giant Accenture, as it works on cutting costs and overhauling its operations using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Known as Project iQ, the plan would include outsourcing part of the airline\u2019s marketing, finance, human resources and other back-office positions, according to several people briefed on the matter who requested anonymity to speak freely. A decision on whether to proceed with the plan and how many jobs will be cut is expected this year.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>clarification \u2014<\/p>\n<p>This article has been updated to more accurately characterise Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson\u2019s previous remarks about bringing jobs back to Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Qantas is in advanced discussions to outsource up to 1000 positions to India as part of a deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-558365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}