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Critical Achieves Investors in People Gold Award

April 29, 2021

Our award demonstrates our commitment to people and their working environment.

Investors in People Gold Award

We’re pleased to announce that Critical Software has been recognised with an Investors in People GOLD award!

At Critical, we care about how we succeed. That means, above all, we care about our people and want to ensure they have the best experience possible in their working environment.


We’re committed to achieving the highest levels of performance through effective people management. Currently, we are:

  • #90 of all Investors in People organisations worldwide (of a total of 977)
  • #2 of all organisations classified as IT & Computer Services (Total 14)

Commenting on the award, Nuno Vaz Santos, People Director, said: “We started this journey in 2015 with a local accreditation in the UK, which we then expanded to all Critical Software geographies and which has now earned us a Gold Award! We’re very proud of the journey we’ve been on together and can’t wait to see what the future holds.”


Investors in People is the international standard for people management, defining what it takes to lead, support, and manage people effectively to achieve sustainable results. Underpinning the standard is the Investors in People framework, reflecting the latest workplace trends, essential skills and effective structures required to overperform in any industry. Investors in People enables organisations to benchmark against the best in the business on an international scale.


The award comes at a time when Critical is announcing its financial results for 2020, achieving a turnover of €64.3M. This represents an 11% growth compared to 2019, maintaining our two-digit growth rate.


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