Pandemic experience helps Capgemini to start hiring rural women in India

Learnings from the coronavirus pandemic have led French IT major Capgemini to start hiring qualified women from rural areas, who are unable to pursue career because of an inability to relocate, as software engineers, a senior official said on Wednesday. The company is targeting to hire 500 such women by December and has already initiated the project with 100 women from southern states who are being trained currently. A woman will get hired as a trainee and earn at par with peers in the company, which is at least Rs 3.5 lakh a year.

Following the announcement of a nationwide lockdown in late-March, the entire service delivery model of the over USD 180-billion Indian IT industry had to be reworked as staff started working from home. Capgemini employs over 1 lakh people in India.