Publicis Sapient, a global digital business transformation company, after it recorded more than 13.8 per cent growth in 2021, plans to double its employee base in India over the next two years, Global CEO Nigel Vaz told BusinessLine.
Publicis Sapient is an American digital consulting company. During the course of the pandemic, the company had aggressively expanded its offices in India from three prime locations to more than 80 cities in the country.
The company has around 10,000 employees in India, which is nearly 50 per cent of its global headcount of over 20,000 employees.
Now, the new hiring to find the talent will be across engineering, product, design, data, and AI verticals.
Vaz said, “We are seeing extraordinary growth. Our hiring is driven to support this growth, and we have seen record-breaking growth. Our primary orientation is to bring flexibility for people and what it takes to enable work better. During the course of the pandemic, we went from our three big primary locations in India to now operating in more than 80 cities.”
He added, “The fact that people want to work in a distributed fashion and in a digital environment, and we want to enable them to have the same kind of culture and support as the global team. We are not mandating them to be in the office or come every few days a week.”
Expanding beyond metros “India has got great talent and that’s not limited to the big cities; it’s the talent from Tier-II and Tier-III coming to big cities. We have to really rethink how to continue to grow the business in a non-traditional way to attract this kind of talent. We are also looking across the top business schools and engineering schools.” said Vaz.
“Because of this approach, we are able to hire people from captive environment, where they are fed up of doing the same thing over again. We are also attracting talent from the start-up community so often. We are similar to a well-funded start-up, but smaller than a legacy IT industry peer and are able to be agile, nimble, and do all kind of work,” he added.
In August 2021, Publicis Sapient has made an announcement that it was expanding its hiring in India across Coimbatore, Madurai, Pune, and Hyderabad, and also it is going by its principle of creating a flexible work environment for its employees.
The company has actually started taking its offices to employees across Tier-II and Tier-III cities, instead of the opposite.
The company also had its first two employees who are working from Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Now, the company might be hiring more people there, instead of calling the two employees back to Bengaluru or Delhi.
India is going to be the talent base for Publicis Sapient to serve the market in the rest of the world. The company has deployed a lot of solutions and plans developed by the Indians in other markets.
In reference to this point, one of the sustainability cloud platforms called eMission Cloud View for companies to manage their carbon footprint was developed jointly by the teams in India working with the energy verticals across the world.
Currently, the company has various job opportunities in India also, Click here to explore the jobs.
