How Adecco accelerates its Green IT strategy

As a global leader in human resources solutions with 9,000 employees, Adecco Group manages thousands of talents and contracts daily across 60 countries and territories worldwide.

But behind this mission lies a desire to do more, more for the environment. That’s why, as Julien Choubrac, Workplace Manager and Green IT Lead at Adecco, points out, it became essential to manage IT activities from a 360° perspective. A significant challenge, especially since Adecco manages a substantial IT infrastructure: PCs, printers, collaborative tools, data centers… All essential equipment, but also energy and carbon-intensive.

In a sector where differentiation is key, Adecco chose to transform this constraint into an opportunity. A mission that goes beyond simple regulatory compliance to become part of a holistic and strategic approach.

Why Green IT is not a luxury, but a necessity

Julien Choubrac is at the heart of the user environment at Adecco, managing equipment ranging from PCs to videoconferencing systems. But his role also extends to overseeing the Green IT scope, an issue that has become central to the group.

Why such a commitment? For Adecco, Green IT integration is multifaceted:

• The need to manage IT activities from a 360° perspective and, above all, the resulting carbon emissions
• An essential component of a broader corporate project focused on sustainability
• Anticipating rapidly evolving regulations (such as CSRD)
• And a strong personal and collective awareness of environmental issues

Before Sopht arrived, Adecco’s teams faced a major challenge: finding reliable emission benchmarks for their multiple equipment types (PCs, printers, Office 365, etc.) and collecting an exhaustive amount of information. A “very time-consuming” process heavy with manual operations.

Sopht: agility serving IT decarbonization

Faced with these challenges, Adecco searched for a solution, and the choice fell on Sopht for several key reasons:

• The agility and speed offered by Sopht in gathering information, enabling more informed decisions
• The maturity of the solution, already deployed with other clients, a guarantee of trust
• End-to-end features from measurement to reporting, including support for reducing carbon footprint

The Sopht solution is now “seamlessly interconnected with Adecco’s various infrastructure components” to collect the necessary information, according to Julien Choubrac.

Concrete benefits and a “GreenOps FinOps” vision

With Sopht, Adecco has seen major changes:

• Drastic automation of data collection, freeing up valuable time for other strategic matters
• Access to clear, actionable, consolidated, on-demand data, essential for managing carbon footprint reduction
• A dual “GreenOps FinOps” vision, balancing environmental performance and cost control

Thanks to decarbonization workshops, concrete levers were identified and exploited: from sourcing refurbished PCs to extending equipment lifespan. The key indicator is clear: reducing the carbon footprint of IT activities.

Adecco now communicates about this collaboration during client negotiations, generating “positive feedback”. Sopht also contributes to educating employees about Green IT, strengthening this internal commitment.

The future is sustainable for Adecco’s IT

Adecco isn’t stopping there. Next steps include continuous monitoring of data integrity, identifying even more decarbonization levers, and an ambitious project to open the Sopht solution to other European countries.

A powerful testimony demonstrating that with the right tools and the right approach, sustainable IT is not a constraint, but a powerful lever for performance and sustainable innovation.