“The plan is to reach about 2,000-2,100 employees this year. We hired 660 people in 2014 and another 500 last year, so we’re now at 1,450 in the three locations in Romania, plus the center in Iasi, which we want to expand this year,” said Catalina Dodu, Atos country manager.
Romania is one of the strategic locations in Europe for Atos, as the local subsidiary is the second most important after Poland, where the group has more than 4,000 employees.
Atos Romania posted 165 million lei (EUR36.4 million) revenue in 2014, an increase of 50% on the previous year.
Following the acquisition of the IT outsourcing division of Xerox in a global deal, Atos Romania took over the team the US company had working in Iasi last year, which currently numbers 15 people.
“We have concrete plans to recruit 100 people for the center in Iasi,” Dodu said.
Back in 2011, when Atos entered Romania by buying Siemens IT Solutions and Services, the local team had 300 people, while in Poland the group had more than 1,000 employees. Romania is now the country with the fastest development, Atos Romania representative said.
Atos has four centers in Romania, in Timisoara, Bucharest, Brasov and Iasi and Timisoara is the biggest of the four, with more than 1,200 people working there.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)