Sky Collaborates with Accenture to Transform the Employee Experience with Cloud-Based HR System

LONDON; Aug. 16, 2022 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has helped Sky, one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies, to modernise its employee experience and human resources (HR) operations with a company-wide cloud-based transformation.

The program is part of Sky Life, the company’s strategic initiative to transform the employee experience through technology that helps enable employees to better organise their working lives, further build their careers and perform at even higher levels.

The new cloud-based capabilities use Workday and ServiceNow to empower employees with self-service solutions, as part of Sky’s goal to further modernise their workplace in an era of hybrid working. The multi-platform solution supports the full range of people management functions, including recruiting, onboarding, performance management, learning, compensation, benefits, absence, time tracking and payroll integration. A Workday mobile application provides employees with anytime, anywhere access, making it easier to complete tasks on the go.

The new capabilities have been rolled out to 35,000 employees across Sky’s markets. In delivering the solution, Accenture consolidated 3.4 million data items from Sky’s existing systems, which provides employees access to real-time data and dashboards across all markets in one place.

Niall Wilson, managing director, Accenture Intelligent Platform Services, said, “At a time when companies are focused on the future of work, we have collaborated with Sky on this important cloud initiative to help them empower their employees and leaders with insight to drive the next wave of growth. Despite the challenges of the pandemic, we are proud to have delivered a complex multi-platform business transformation across Europe using a remote working delivery model.”

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About Sky
Sky is Europe’s leading media and entertainment company and is proud to be part of Comcast Corporation, a global media and technology company that connects people to moments that matter. Across six countries, Sky connects 23 million customers to the best entertainment, sports, news, arts and to our own award-winning original content.

Following the launch of Sky Glass, we now offer customers our strongest ever line-up of products and services. As well as the new streaming TV with Sky inside and everything integrated, customers can enjoy the award-winning Sky Q with all your favourite channels and apps in one place, and with Sky Go you can now access an even better experience on your devices. Sky TV has new channels, new shows and new deals with Peacock, Paramount+ and more. Sky Mobile was voted Best Pay Monthly and Best Value Pay Monthly network by Uswitch, and with Sky Broadband we’re offering our fastest speeds yet.

Building on the success of Sky Originals like Chernobyl, Gangs of London and Brassic, we are doubling our investment in original content by 2024 through Sky Studios. Our new TV and movie studio, Sky Studios Elstree, is expected to create over 2,000 new jobs and generate an additional £3 billion of production investment in the UK over the first five years alone. Sky News provides impartial and trustworthy journalism for free; Sky Arts is the UKs only dedicated free-to-air arts channel making the arts accessible for everyone and Sky Sports, our leading sports broadcasting service, brings customers some of the biggest and best global sporting events from the Premier League to Formula 1 and everything in-between. Sky Cinema is the home of Sky Original films with brand new films launching every month alongside an unrivalled range of the latest cinema releases and on demand library.

We believe that we can be a force for good in the communities in which we operate. We’re committed to being Europe’s first net zero carbon entertainment company by 2030 and we’re proud to be a Principal Partner and Media Partner of COP26 – the UN Climate Change Conference. We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for our commitment to diversity, and we’ve set ambitious 2025 targets to continue to increase diversity and representation. We’re also committed to investing £30million across our markets over the next three years to improve our approach to diversity and inclusion, and to tackle racial injustice.

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