We want our employees to feel valued, appreciated, and free to be who they are at work.
Across the globe, we have created a variety of programs to embed our Atos culture of inclusivity and work hard to ensure that all of our employees have an equal opportunity to contribute and feel that they are exactly where they belong.
“Diversity and inclusion drive huge business value by giving us the benefit of differing experiences, perspectives and knowledge. We want our employees to feel safe and accepted in the workplace so that they can bring their best to our business.”
Paul Peterson
Head of Human Resources
Understanding and improving our workplace
Atos recognizes that its principal asset and competitive advantage is its employees. In a challenging organizational environment coupled with strong competition for talent, Atos is reinforcing its key programs in talent attraction & retention and skills management, to make it an employer of choice, and a place where employees can have control of their careers and develop in a diverse, inclusive, creative, responsible and collaborative workplace.
At Atos, we focus on four main drivers of diversity and inclusion:
Diversity
Atos’ global workforce across 69 countries representing 143 nationalities truly demonstrates its strength of true diversity of background, experience, and culture. At Atos everyone should feel valued, appreciated and free to be who they are at work. Their authentic self. We are proud to call ourselves an inclusive employer.
Atos has decreased its own absolute Greenhouse gas emissions by 32.5% between 2019 and 2023 (All GHG Protocol Scopes 1, 2, 3 ; in CO2e). This reduction is in line with its commitment (Near-term target officially validated by the SBTi) to halve its carbon emissions between 2019 and 2025.
- Atos signed parity.org´s charter in 2018, committing to the advancement of women into senior level roles.
- Atos signed UN Standards of Conduct for Business in 2018, aligning ourselves with the focus on inclusivity for all.
- L’ Autre Cercle Charter, pledging support to our LGBT+ employees, signed in 2019.
- Our job descriptions use language free from gender, age, and other biases, in alignment with our culture of inclusivity.
- Atos UK and Ireland has been recognised as a leading employer for women and decreasing gender inequality in the workplace for a fifth consecutive year through its inclusion in the Times
- Top 50 Employer for Women 2023.
- The Global Diversity List has named Atos twice in its 2023 Lists thanks to the efforts of its Adapt and Together Networks.
- In 2022 Atos launched the Stride program that supports women employees in a targeted development program designed to accelerate their careers in technology. In addition, the Group expanded its Executive Women’s Mentoring program to support women to progress to more senior levels within the organization.
Digital accessibility
We focus on addressing the key challenges that people face to going digital:
- Accessibility: enabling people to connect to the internet and use services, connectivity, accessibility, and interoperability with assistive technologies
- Skills: improving digital literacy and knowledge of assistive technologies that help disabled people
- Motivation and trust: understanding the reasons why using digital technology is a good thing and feeling confident in using it
- Atos has deep relationship on accessibility with partners and suppliers, such as Microsoft, Amazon, SAP, Salesforce and Google
- Atos is an active partner of the Valuable 500 initiative to accelerate disability inclusion and end exclusion through business
- Atos activities on accessibility are recognized in international forums and awards (Disability Smart Awards, IAAP, Disability Power 100 List)
- Atos has 52 accessibility experts certified by the IAAP (27 CPACC, 12 WAS, 10 CPWA and 2 ADS) as of December 2023.
Digital education
Atos is committed to attract and nurture today’s most talented digital experts from diverse backgrounds and offer them the opportunity to build the new digital world.
- Our recruitment efforts are focused on young graduates. We seek out digital natives as well as certified experts.
- The annual Atos IT Challenge is an international student competition dedicated to technological innovation.
- Atos has a strong commitment to playing a key part in the education of the future of young professionals, the Group has developed strong institutional partnerships with 190 universities and academic institutions worldwide, enabling us to cultivate a culture of innovation at Atos and welcome their top graduates.
- The team “VR Speech Trainer” won the Atos IT Challenge 2023 “The Metaverse – New experiences for business ecosystems”
- Launch of our Be Digital program to equip our employees with the digital skills that will drive the continues growth of our business.
- Atos employees have also access to various Atos University Academy programs to generate a detailed understanding of our professional job requirements.
- 59,524 employees were trained at various academies and trainings, with a total of 86,009 certifications obtained in 2023.
Employee experience
The “Employee Experience” program is a key Group transformation program. It offers Atos employees a workplace where they can grow and flourish thanks to a more hybrid working environment, and to the reassurance that all situations are managed with fairness and in accordance with prevailing rules around ethics and human rights. This program includes wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, social value, life@work and provides guidance and support for local initiatives in all Atos geographic.
- Atos is in a continuous improvement mode regarding working conditions of its employees, maintaining and promoting the health, safety and wellbeing of its employees
- Atos offers career perspectives and sustainable employability to each of its employees through programs such as Internal First and the Expert Community
- Atos UK earned a spot on the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women and in the Best Workplaces in Tech in the 2023 Lists.
- In 2023, over 65 Employee Led Employee Engagement sessions were run covering topics such as managing in a hybrid world, happier minds and psychological safety.
We are happy to share our priorities for CSR and how we can pave the way for a more responsible era.
