Atos named a Times Top 50 Employer for Women 2020 for the second year
London, July 30, 2020
Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, has been ranked as a Times Top 50 Employer for Women 2020 in UK and Ireland for the second consecutive year.
The accolade highlights Atos’ actions in the primary areas of attraction and recruitment, retention and progression, culture and inclusion, monitoring and accountability.
Atos is taking further action to improve gender diversity, including:
- End-end employee life cycle review with campaigns, updated advertising materials and diversified hiring panels alongside new gender friendly language within job descriptions;
- Talent programmes supporting female leaders to advance, supporting and coaching alongside tailored mentoring and sponsorship programmes supported by senior leaders;
- Promoting the Atos ethnic diversity action pledge for intersectionality – a commitment to enhance BAME female representation at senior levels
- A recently extended, comprehensive family friendly policy scheme
“We are delighted to feature again as a top employer of women, which is an endorsement of our long-term approach and shows we have an effective plan in place to support women to succeed within Atos and our industry”, commented Clay Van Doren, Chief Executive Officer at Atos UK&I.
“Inclusivity remains a central focus which touches all aspects of our organisation. This recognition is a testament to our initiatives that create space for diversity, our overall culture and ways of working. More still can be done and we will drive forward our programmes with renewed energy to create a diverse and inclusive team, while providing development opportunities to help our women advance at Atos”, said Denise Reed Lamoreaux, Global Chief Diversity Officer at Atos.
This holistic approach, implemented by Atos at global and local levels, is aimed at providing an environment in which women can flourish and fulfil their career aspirations in a supportive environment.
The official Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2020 can be viewed here.
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About Atos
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of € 12 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. In the UK & Ireland Atos delivers business technology solutions for some of the country’s largest public and private sector organisations The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.
The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.