Case Study: Hays achieves rapid global scaling — 75 websites in 31 countries with Liferay

Scaling Digital Touchpoints with Liferay

Hays is a leading global specialist recruitment group operating in 33 countries and handling over a million candidate interactions a year. The business needed a fresh, flexible and consistent multilingual digital presence that could scale quickly across regions, reduce time-to-market and lessen marketing’s reliance on IT while supporting future digital growth.

Hays adopted a Liferay platforming strategy—using open-source developer tooling, templated sites and out-of-the-box (OOTB) features for CMS, search, multilingual support and authentication—so engineers could focus on business logic and marketers could self-serve forms and journeys. Delivered in two phases, the programme rolled out 75 sites in 31 countries in 12–18 months, met its primary business goals, reduced IT dependency and established a scalable foundation for ongoing digital delivery.

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Steve Weston

Chief Information Officer