Tech Foundations is a digital services company, a sector that employs consultants who carry out one assignment after another for companies that outsource their training, tool construction and deployment or IT maintenance needs. This means that companies have particular needs in terms of HR and finance, while consultants, who are still employees, can find themselves without assignments during the phases between ‘contracts’. All the more so as the sector is growing (4% in France in 2023 compared with 0.8% for GDP) and the job market remains “under pressure” according to the Numeum trade association. Dedicated to these companies, the Whoz tool, which promises to improve staffing thanks to AI, claims to have 600,000 users, including 70,000 in France. It was this specialisation that attracted the Atos subsidiary. “We could have built the tool in-house, but we chose to use one of the best existing tools, based on its knowledge of the market”, says Senthil Nathan, head of global workforce management at Tech Foundations (52,000 employees).
