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," Christopher Stancombe, head, industrialisation and automation, Capgemini, told ET.

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.

As per Nasscom's annual review, jobs grew only by 5% in FY17 and it might be down to 20-25% reduction in the coming three years.

"We have been more focused on the positive side. We are seeing that it is releasing people's time to enable them to do other things -a bit more analytics, customer care. We are seeing a positive influence and a great opportunity for us, clients and employees. Automation is actually increasing demand for people," said Stancombe.

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