French Tech Giant Atos to Hire 15,000 People in India in 2022

Atos, a French multinational IT service and consulting company recently announced its future plans to hire at least 15,000 employees in India in the next 12 months. Atos specializes in hi-tech transactional services, unified communications, cloud, big data and cybersecurity services. Currently, the company employs almost 40,000 people in India and has more than 1 lakh employees globally.

Atos at a hiring spree

In an interview with Economic Times, Elie Girard, Chief Executive Officer, Atos said, “We are at a tipping point at this moment. India is the best provider of those skills in the world, however at present, there is a talent war between demand and supply.” He further added, “We are experiencing a productivity shock, like what we experienced 20 years ago, thanks to the acceleration of digitization, and India is at the heart of it.”

Elie Girard further shared, “Atos invests nearly 400 million euros in India yearly on employee-related bills, together with payroll and skilling. Additionally, India is an important marketplace for the company, which is partnering with the federal government on the Nationwide Supercomputing Mission.”

Atos has three clear differentiators that set it apart from other companies.“We have hardware, and we have software on top of services, and this is very unique,” Girard said. “Second, we are number one in Europe and second in the world in cybersecurity services. To that end we are doing a lot of acquisitions there and I believe that in a year or two we will be number one worldwide in cybersecurity services,” he said.

Last year, Atos acquired Paladion, which has a significant presence in India.

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Atos connection to Indian Government

Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) floated a tender in February to build high performance computers (HPC). The three year contract was snatched by Atos, to build the supercomputers under India’s Rs 4500 crore National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).Atos would be making use of its energy-efficient Direct Liquid Cooled BullSequana supercomputers.

“We have a quantum lab in India, and I think India can lead the pack in quantum given the magnificent digital force you have,” Girard said. He further added, “A lot of our product development in cybersecurity is happening in India. We’ve invested in assembly lines on supercomputing and on 5G edge and are working to make sure we can integrate those two technologies together to build the new services,” Girard said.

Atos considers India as an important market and presently, the country accounts for almost one-third of its revenues.

Well, given the changing dynamics in the Technological Industry acceleration of digitization has resulted in a demand boom across sectors, including the public sector and defense, which would no doubt benefit employment. Consequently, it will result in advancement in the country's economy as well.

Atos - A brief look at the French Firm

Atos is a French security service company with a broad array of market-leading digital solutions with consulting, digital safety and decarbonization services; a partnership-based approach to end-to-end solutions. Aiming to become world leader in cybersecurity services, the company broadly functions in the following domains:

Cyber Security
Analytics, AI and Automation
Digital Consulting
Decarbonization
Advanced Computing