Capgemini India has announced its plans to hire 40,000 to 45,000 people in 2025. At a time, when the tech industry is about attrition, Capgemini is taking the road less taken.
The company has decided to hire 40 to 45,000 people that will include 35-40% lateral entrants. The company’s India CEO said that a sharp spike in demand for cost-effective services from clients has resulted in increased project inflows to India.
As of now, Capgemini has 1 lakh 75,000 employees in India. It has tied up with over 50 educational institutions in India for recruitment. In fact, the hiring has already begun with strong focus on AI-readiness training for freshers.
Capgemini has also acquired WNS for $13 billion, which makes it their largest acquisition since iGate. Though regulatory approvals will take 6 months, merging WNS means large employee intake. The company is confident of integration, given its past experience with iGate.
With WNS, Capgemini’s Business Process Services (BPS) and agentic-AI capabilities will be given a big push. The operational capabilities of WNS will blend with Capgemini’s analytics and consulting framework.
The primary agenda is to improve intelligent operations for clients, powered by agentic-AI. Capgemini intends to make $100 M to $140 M by 2027.
While hiring fresh, Capgemini is committed to ensuring limited or no job redundancies in keeping with it’s employee-first principle.
With India gaining global relevance in tech operations, Capgemini’s fresh round of hiring and AI-led transformation could become a blueprint for Indian tech industry.
