PanArkis - India

Capgemini might hire over 20,000 employees from India
Capgemini, the French multinational information technology consulting corporation might hire over 20,000 people in India this year, having reskilled 45,000 of its employees until May, as it inches towards automation. Last year, the company had hired 33,000 people from the country, and re-skilled 51,000 of its employees. "There is a lot of training. We are investing a lot of money in the development of training programmes because automation and the integration of automation is leading to a lot of opportunity for our workforce," Mr. Christopher Stancombe, head, industrialisation and automation, Capgemini, said. The company presently has a workforce of about 100,000 people in India. This is against the industry trend, since most IT companies have been on a firing spree, citing automation and digitisation.