Atos announced the opening of its new Global Delivery Center facility in Cairo, Egypt concluded in a formal signing ceremony together with the Egyptian Prime Minister, Mr. Mostafa Kamal Madbouly, and Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Amr Talaat. With this new GDC, Atos reinforces its presence in the Middle East and Africa and its commitment to both regional and global clients. This new GDC will boost its offshore delivery capability in addition to enabling it to explore business prospects from the wider region.

Egypt produces 100,000 IT graduates each year, with a diverse, gender-balanced workforce. Over 80% of its young working population are fluent in languages such as Arabic, English, French and German. Egypt was also ranked the 4th most pandemic-resilient country, solidifying its position as one of the world's best delivery locations.

Leveraging Egypt's diverse and skilled workforce and strong support from the Ministry of Communications and IT, Atos aims to provide cutting-edge, best-in-class digital services to its clients across the globe. It offers a full range of services, including digital workplace, application development, automated testing, project management, analytics and database, mainframe, server and infrastructure support to its clients with competitive pricing. The diversity of the IT and business services provided in Egypt, along with its cost competitiveness, and government support, encourage global enterprises to launch and expand their global operations reinforcing the country's reputation as a favorable, reliable IT offshoring destination and business services hub.

Now with 350 IT professionals, Atos in Egypt plans to hire another 1,000 employees over the next 12 months with an emphasis on local talent. Atos will continue its investment in premise extension, training and skill set development and recruitment of local resources.