With an existing workforce of 40,000 in India, Atos is planning to add another 15,000 employees in 2022. The €11 billion firm invests €400 million in India annually on employee-related expenses, including payroll and skill enhancing. Currently one-third of its revenues are accrued from the India office.
“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 new services,” Girard said. He added that in a year or two Atos will be foremost worldwide in cybersecurity services.
Atos has a quantum lab in India, and additionally, it has invested in India’s National Supercomputing Mission where it assembles and tests high-performance computers.