Overview
Adecco Group is a global workforce-solutions and talent-services company operating through three businesses: Adecco, which provides workforce solutions and placement; Akkodis, focused on digital, IT and engineering services; and LHH, which provides talent and career-mobility services. Its offerings include flexible and permanent placement, outsourcing, consulting, career transition and training.[1][2]
The Group states its purpose as “making the future work for everyone,” bringing people and technology together to support human and business potential.[3][4] For FY2025, it reported revenue of €23,082 million.[5] The Group reports 34,000 company-based FTEs, excluding consultants, two million associates on assignment daily, and operations in 60 countries.[6] Its origins date to 1957, when Adia SA was founded in Lausanne.[7] [1][3][4][5][2][6][7]
Products & services
Adecco Group’s offerings span staffing and recruitment, technology and engineering services, and professional talent solutions. Adecco provides flexible placement, permanent recruitment, outsourcing and managed services, including managed service provider (MSP) solutions. Flexible-placement assignments are commonly priced by hours worked at agreed client rates, and can range from less than a month to multiple years.[8] The Group also reports Career Transition, Training/Up-skilling/Re-skilling, and Outsourcing/Consulting/Other Services as distinct service lines.[1]
Akkodis provides digital transformation, engineering, IT and R&D services. Its named product AI-Core is described as a secure, modular AI platform using tailored, domain-specific models to automate complex tasks.[9][10] LHH offers talent and HR advisory, professional recruitment, development, and career transition and mobility services. Its Career Studio platform combines coaching, personalized career insights, real-time job-market data and tailored career journeys, with links to General Assembly upskilling offerings; the Group also identifies EZRA as a coaching brand and General Assembly as a technical-skills and upskilling brand.[11][12][13]
In the six months to 30 June 2026, service-line revenue was reported as follows: Flexible Placement €8,603 million (74% of Group revenue); Outsourcing/Consulting/Other Services €2,395 million (21%); Career Transition €252 million (2%); Permanent Placement €278 million (2%); and Training/Up-skilling/Re-skilling €127 million (1%). Shares are rounded.[14] By business unit for the same period, Adecco represented 82% of Group revenue, Akkodis 13%, and LHH 5%.[15] [8][1][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
Geographic presence
Adecco Group operates in 60 countries. Its reported geographic regions include Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, South America and North Africa; its public locations page lists country locations across its worldwide footprint.[16][17][18]
For FY2025, the Adecco operating segment—not the Group as a whole—reported revenue of €4.389 billion in France (23.7% of the segment’s regional total), €8.815 billion in EMEA excluding France (47.7%), €2.767 billion in the Americas (15.0%), and €2.520 billion in APAC (13.6%). EMEA excluding France comprises Italy, Iberia, UK & Ireland, Germany & Austria, EEMENA, Benelux, Nordics and Switzerland; the Americas comprise North and Latin America; and APAC includes India, Japan, Asia, and Australia & New Zealand.[19][20][21][22] [18][19][20][21][22][16][17]
Business segments
Adecco Group reports three primary business segments: Adecco, Akkodis and LHH. Adecco provides staffing and employability services, with reported service lines including flexible and permanent placement, outsourcing, consulting and other services, and training, up-skilling and re-skilling. Its geographic subsegments are France, EMEA excluding France, the Americas and APAC. Akkodis focuses on digital and engineering solutions for Smart Industry. LHH provides professional talent solutions spanning HR and talent advisory, recruitment, development, career transition and mobility. The Group also reports results by service line as a secondary view.[23][11]
By external-customer revenue in the six months ended 30 June 2026, Adecco contributed approximately 82% of Group revenue (€9.567bn of €11.655bn), Akkodis 12.5% (€1.456bn) and LHH 5.4% (€0.632bn). Within Adecco, France represented about 18.4% of Group revenue, EMEA excluding France 39.2%, the Americas 13.3% and APAC 11.2%. For full-year 2025, the approximate revenue mix was 80% Adecco, 14% Akkodis and 6% LHH; percentages are rounded and based on reported segment revenues.[24][25][26] [23][11][24][25][26]
Company history
Adecco’s roots lie in two staffing businesses: Adia SA, founded by Henri-Ferdinand Lavanchy in Lausanne in 1957, and Ecco, founded by Philippe Foriel-Destezet in Lyon in 1964. Adia expanded internationally, while Ecco became a leading French temporary-staffing company; the two merged in 1996 to form Adecco.[27][28][29][30]
Adecco expanded through acquisitions, including TAD Resources in 1997 and Olsten’s IT and general staffing businesses in 2000, followed by MPS Group in 2010 and Drake Beam Morin in 2011.[31][32][33] Alain Dehaze became CEO in 2015, and later acquisitions included Vettery and General Assembly in 2018.[34][35][36] In 2020, the group announced its Future@Work structure; after acquiring AKKA Technologies in 2021–22, it combined AKKA and Modis under the Akkodis brand, and Denis Machuel became CEO in 2022.[37][38][39][40][41] [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]
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