In mid-May, when Accenture employees in Pune walked into a meeting with their managers, they may have expected a routine annual appraisal discussion. Instead, they were told things would be done differently this year.

The IT-services major has officially changed how it awards salary hikes to employees worldwide. Instead of peppering the full amount across monthly salaries for the year, Accenture has split it into two parts. Half the hike will be added to employees’ base salary as before, while the other half will be........

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