Finally, an excuse to use an image of a capybara for an article.
Get a load of this press release:
Grant Thornton, one of the largest brands in professional services, and Auxis, a leader and pioneer in Latin American outsourcing and business modernization services, today announced that they will join forces.
By acquiring Auxis, Grant Thornton will enhance its advisory services entity: US-based Grant Thornton Advisors LLC — which provides a range of services centered on strategy, transformation and operations. These include offerings across M&A, technology, finance, operations, sales and marketing, data, AI, cybersecurity and risk. Grant Thornton Advisors LLC also provides a complete slate of tax services.
The transaction is another important step as Grant Thornton creates the industry’s first full-service advisory offering, amplified by AI and advanced technologies. Clients will have access to Auxis’ industry-leading and tech-enabled nearshore-outsourcing services — which span finance, information technology, human resources, customer service and specialized industry solutions.
So cheap Latin American talent, AI, and…Grant Thornton quality? Auxis’ 1,400 “highly-skilled, multilingual team members primarily located in Costa Rica and Colombia” will be assimilated into the growing, PE-fueled GT Borg.
Here’s how Auxis describes itself on its website:
Nearshore Outsourcing Pioneer in Latin America
As one of the first to offer IT and business services from the region, Auxis brings deep industry knowledge and unmatched customer experience in serving US companies. Going beyond cost savings, our delivery centers and supporting hubs in Latin America offer highly skilled talent, cultural alignment, improved capabilities, and operational standardization for long term value.
And here’s how its described in Grant Thornton’s press release:
Auxis’ tailored solutions help organizations harness rapidly advancing technology, navigate rising costs and mitigate talent shortages. It was one of the first providers to recognize the benefits of nearshoring for US companies. As a result, demand for its services has surged. This momentum has reinforced its founding vision: to bring everything Latin America has to offer to the broader business community, from real-time collaboration to cultural alignment to top-tier talent.
Still on that talent shortage bullshit I see.
Grant Thornton to expand industry-leading advisory practice by joining forces with nearshore pioneer Auxis [Grant Thornton]
GT is making the right call. The young Millennial and Gen Z people in America have shown little resilience to the times. They love their woke hand-holding parties but won’t exert effort to justify their expense.
Latin Americans have the right attitude and work ethic. Those who don’t work hard will disagree. Chirp away my woke friends!
Sixty-nine year old Woke CPA, with 49 tax seasons under my belt, all in public accounting. You are a COWARD to rip young people’ work ethic and not even reveal your name. Offshoring is the big firms’ cost cutting answer to everything these days. This has nothing to do with the next generation’s work ethic. Have some stones and tell us who you are and why you are hiding behind your Mama’s skirt.
Thank you! And thank you for your decades of service 🫡
That person has been spamming the comment section of just about every article for weeks now. Everything is WOKE this and DEI that, lazy millennials and Gen Z blah blah. I’m all for discussing these things and as long as people keep it relatively on-topic and civil we allow it, but half the time it doesn’t even make sense why they’re even bringing up wOkE. It’s bordering on spam at this point.