Hello. Do we have a video first? Okay. Everything is clear now. Good morning. Good morning, good afternoon, or good night, depending where you are. Maybe I'm going to go there. We are going to present you the results of 2022, and our first guidance for 2023. Okay. Okay. Well, you know the group, I'm not going to say a lot of things about this slide, except that the group is in a metamorphosis phase. Passing year after year from being totally focused on customer experience to enlarging our game field into what we call the Digital Integrated Business Services. Which mean that not only today we are managing customer interaction, but we are also managing end-to-end outsourced process for our clients.
As you can see, the net number of people has been more or less stable despite the growth. This is mostly linked to the COVID one-time business that was much more people-intensive versus the average of our business. As you can see also, in 2022, so at the exit of the COVID period, we are more or less at 50/50 in terms of work organization. 50% working from home and 50% working from our centers. We think that we are going to probably come to a stabilization around the end of 2023. That should take us with 40% working from home and 60% working from the centers. In fact, we have a record growth and a record profitability. As usual, I would say, year after year.
In a year that has been everything but boring. First it started with the war in Eastern Europe. Second, by the fact that China did not open at all, which mean that we have an operation there that we have not seen for three years. Very simple. Third, has been a lot of uncertainties on the markets, specifically in the second part of the year. Fourth, we have seen the rise and the fall of the cryptocurrency market. Which by the way impacted us also because we are serving a large platform.
We ramp up very aggressively at the beginning of the year, and then we had to ramp down very aggressively, due to the events on the cryptocurrency and the volatility of this market so far. It has been also a challenging year for the management because suddenly, out of nowhere, we had to face a totally unsubstantiated polemic that distracted the management from its day-to-day task for almost three months. Still, a little bit more than EUR 8 billion, 15% growth as reported, 14.6%. 12.5% like for like, if we exclude the one-time COVID business. Despite the fact that EUR 500 million of COVID contract, went to an end, we still had all together like-for-like growth close to +6%.
I think it's above the guidance we gave early 2022 and also above the guidance that we gave in summer 2022. The margin have followed. There is +18.5% in EBITDA, which is up 80 basis point versus 2021, and +17.8% in EBITA. It follows to the bottom, where the growth in net profit, we paid quite a lot of taxes. As usual, you know, we are a group that never try to optimize its result by a strange tax planning, and we pay our fair share of tax. I call that ESG. For the one who give lessons and don't pay tax. We have...
We are going to suggest to the general assembly of shareholder to distribute a dividend of EUR 3.85, which is +17% versus last year. The cash flow has been very solid, we kept our Standard & Poor's BBB rating, which is the kind of rating that we like. We don't want to be overly conservative and have an AA rating. Of course, we want to be solid enough to deserve the BBB rating. What did we do?
Still in that year, that was pretty active, we made the acquisition of a digital recruitment platform that is pretty interesting for us because it help us to recruit the people we need every year internally, and it help us to better penetrate a sector, a vertical that is of high interest for us, which is the healthcare in the U.S. The second point. Oh, this is called CSR. Yes, we have the Best Employer Certification in 64 countries that cover more than 97% of the group workforce. Maybe the guys who give the best, the best working place, maybe they are blind to give us this kind of ranking. Maybe there are something that some people who wanted to start a polemic did not caught. Did not catch. Sorry.
By the way, as we have to read the press and as we have to trust the press when it's negative, we should trust the press when it's positive also. The magazine Fortune ranked Teleperformance 11 among 10,000 company in terms of world best workplace. There are not many companies that can say that. Maybe there are 10. With us, there are 10 others. After, we have few friends who are a little bit behind us, but for us, it's a great award, and it means a lot. Okay. What happened? I'm not going to make you the gift not to come back on the unfair, unsubstantiated, crazy, storm in a glass of water polemic that has been started and amplified in some places.
We got a negative noise in media, social media in late 2022 with regard to our content moderation practice and the working conditions at Teleperformance in Colombia. There was two article in three months from two different. O ne from a journal, one from another one, and one tweet from a vice minister of labor. When I was in roadshow in the, in the U.S. at 3:00 A.M., somebody called me and told me, "Hey, Daniel, wake up. It's a disaster. There is a massive sale off, and the stock is down 38%." November 10, Black Thursday. I don't know. If an atomic bomb comes on a European city in the future, we will be more prepared to that than I was to listen to this hallucinating story. What did we do? To restore the truth and the trust.
We had audited our operation in El Paso, Texas, because the two places that were in discussion were El Paso, Texas, and Teleperformance in Colombia. We had found no inconsistency. We asked a third party audit to double check. It was in the heat of the crisis, this crisis was mentioning a client that is himself a topic of debate in the U.S. as you know. By the way, at that time, the audit firm said, "Okay, we can make the audit, but we don't want to be involved in that kind of polemic.
We make the audit at the condition that you do not disclose the name of the company that made the audit. In the heat of the crisis, we said, "Yes, it was maybe a mistake," but we needed to have a third party because we really wanted it. Some people who give us a lot of credit saw that we did not want to reveal the third party audit because maybe it was a third level audit firm. No, it was a first level audit firm. What did they find? They find no inconsistency with our Teleperformance USA statement and that there was no egregious work moderated in El Paso, which what we were saying from the beginning.
The journalist who interviewed five or six ex-guy who had worked in our center at one part of time, did a strange job, I have to say. She could have interviewed maybe the thousands of people working in El Paso, maybe she would have got another story. We are going to discuss that afterwards. It was clear among the heat of the drama that a large part of the financial community was concerned with the job of content moderation. For us, we think we are proud to make this job. We think that it's maybe the most useful job that Teleperformance does because we protect the public, we protect the family, we protect the kids from the bad people in the digital world. I mean, in the real world, there are people who are protecting.
We call them cops, we call them firemen, we call them, first responder. Nobody think they are bad people, and they should not exist. Okay. Under the pressure we decided, we say, "Okay, fine. We are going to continue the content moderation, but we are going to make sure that with our client, we segregate the files that have a high level of recurrence of highly egregious content, and this one we will stop to take them. The client either is going to manage them internally or will give this file to another provider." This is a decision that we announced in November 17. In December 1, because some of the noise was not totally did not came just totally by chance, as you can imagine.
In December one, behind the scene, Olivier and I and few other people who worked very positively with the Federation of Union who was complaining about the situation in Colombia, and we signed a global agreement with them, which is basically the content of the global agreement of the UN Global Compact that we signed in 2011. We recognize them as a valid interlocutor, a valid partner to discuss the implementation of the ESG. That's. We have nothing to hide. It's perfect. It goes very well with us. Was it enough? We were recovering a little bit, but not so much. First, we thought that we owed to our board to come, see, feel and touch.
We took the board of Teleperformance for their board seminar, the 3-day board seminar in El Paso, Texas, so they could see the horrible condition of our worker in El Paso, Texas. Here you have just few pictures, you are going to see that many of you would like to work in such environment. By the way, this what you cannot see is the place where we have the free ice cream for our people, and they can help themselves. Treat yourself, it's free. That's for them. Here or here is the break room. Here is the floor. I mean, honestly, I've seen many of the floors of the financial institution. They are not better than this. Here. Oh, Cafeteria. As you can see, it's ugly and gray.
Sometimes it's good not to have a temper, but sometimes things have to be said. What did we do? We continued. December seventh, a third party, well-known third party, released its audit on Teleperformance Colombia, and the result of the audit on the compliance to the norm ISO 26000, which is the CSR in operation, we pass it with 93 out of 100. Guess what? I don't know if you have been to school, but if you go to school, this is an A, not a B. It's not option B, it's A. If you don't trust Bureau Veritas, please welcome. Welcome to TP Colombia. December 13, of course, I was in Bogotá, meeting the representative of the government, of the new government that, you know, that's changed and so on. Asking them...
In fact, I met the Secretary General to the President, I met the Vice Minister of the Economy, I asked the very candid question. You know, so far, we think we have done only good to the country. In a country where 50% of the labor is casual, we are 100% formal. Second, most of our job is service exportation, we bring hard currency to the country. Third, we pay all our taxes, I showed all the taxes we had paid during years. Four, if you want to see our operation, please open doors. Welcome. I don't think that there is one company in the country that has something as beautiful. In fact, I had two extremely positive meetings, where the representative of the government told me, "There is no...
You are not in the agenda of the government. Of course, we want you to be in Colombia, and we want you to grow in Colombia." Just for the sake of it. I was very happy to see that yesterday night at 11:00 P.M., the Vice Minister of Labor who had tweet about Teleperformance just sent a tweet saying that 2023 is in a good direction with a three-party social dialogue between Teleperformance, the government, the unions, and me. It's a great love. January 17 to January 24, what do we do? We see still not there. You know, calumny, there is always something that stay. We open doors. We open doors where we manage content moderation in the main country, USA, Fort Lauderdale, India, Portugal, Colombia, Greece, Albania, to 60 investor and analyst.
I am sure that some of you have been there. For the one who have been there, I will let them share their experience with their colleagues. I have no comment. I think everywhere you see ultra-modern work conditions, people very professional and very involved, no real trace of dirty exploitation like it was commented in the press. January 30, 2023, finally, after years... Oh, yeah, our same friend of union, when the COVID started, pretended that we had put at danger the health of our workers. I'm sure that the stats of fatalities in Teleperformance workers were way below the stats of the countries where we are. We have been commended, by the way, by so many people, including by the worker councils in Europe for what we have done.
I remind you that we were one of the rare company to be able to find 6 million mask to distribute to our employees at a time the governments were unable to find mask. I mean, some governments, and so on. Finally, the OECD national point of contact said, "Okay, we close the case. There is nothing to say. Teleperformance respects the OECD guidelines, and all the recommendations that we made have been implemented." Okay. Let's continue, because it's not enough. When there are calumnies, you have to kill the calumny, but to kill, kill, because a calumny has 8 heads. January 31, we got from Korn Ferry, I swear we did not bribe.
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Sorry. January 31, we got from Korn Ferry that you cannot suspect that we try to influence the result of their audit. They told us that looking at all the key aspects of the employee experience at Teleperformance, the Teleperformance for the Trust and Safety division, the content moderation. The Trust and Safety division of Teleperformance score exceed the benchmark for 600 other company by double-digit points. I'm not saying that, it's Korn Ferry. Either you trust Korn Ferry and you must trust Teleperformance, or you don't trust Teleperformance, and so you don't trust Korn Ferry neither. January 14, 2023, after Colombia, we asked the Bureau Veritas to make the same audit to Greece, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Portugal, USA regarding ISO 26000. Results, positive in all case.
The only exception being a formal exception was the fact that our U.S. operation should be better documented on their ESG process, which is going to be done in the coming weeks, huh? Paperwork. That's the story, ladies and gentlemen. Let's see what has been the impact of this drama. I call that a drama mostly for the French investors. It's called the butterfly effect, you know, that has been identified by Edward Lorenz in 1963. A butterfly flip its wings thousands of miles away, and it create a tornado in Texas. By the way, it was in Texas. You hear? I know. You have a situation, blah, blah, and around 270, 266, and so on. The Black Thursday, massive sale. Our three months of hard work that I described to you.
You know, when you do that, you don't do something else. It's a distraction for the management. Three months to come back where people know the truth and restart the trust. The fact, and I'm not going to judge on that, is look at what happened. Very simple. It has been concentrated on one country, France. The share of the French shareholders has reduced from 20% to 13% over the time, meaning that there's been a kind of panic sale. Who took advantage of that? The Anglo-Saxon. Their share is now 65%. Their share of shareholding of the company is now 65% and +8%. Fact. I let you make your own conclusion. Now, let's speak about the future. The future is complicated.
If anybody in this room pretend that 2023 is an easy year to forecast, my God, we are ready to hire the person immediately because we want to know what is the secret of smartness. It's complicated. Still, you know the way we work. For decades, we have managed to always deliver our guidance. Still we think that we are going to have a double-digit like for like growth, around 10%. I don't know if it will be 10.5. I don't know if it will be 9.7. In that case, it would not be a double-digit. It would be 2-digit, but with a comma. No, it will be around 10%. Honestly, nobody can be more precise than that.
This is going to go with the final termination of the remaining COVID contract that are still present in 2022 for around EUR 200 million, which is going to give us, COVID included, a like for like revenue growth of above +7%. As usual, because it's part of our commitment to try to fine-tune, we are going to improve our ratio. We think that we are going to have 20 basis point EBITDA ratio improvement. As we are in a very strong financial situation, we are going to continue to look at targeted acquisition according to our strategy. Our strategy is very well-known. We give the priority to business that we do not have in our portfolio of service to enlarge our portfolio of service as a business service company.
We usually take a very, very well-managed and profitable company, and usually we buy the companies with at a discounted multiple versus Teleperformance in order to create additional value for our shareholders. Our midterm objective. Again, we want to become a global leader in Digital Integrated Business Service solution, which is the mix, the integration of all the elements of the digital to streamline the process, but keeping well alive the emotional intelligence to keep the link, to rebuild the trust between the customer and the company they buy your product or service from, or between the citizen and the government or the administration they are interacting with. Oh, yes, I see here on this slide that somebody said that we are ahead of schedule. Okay. Yes, we are maybe a little bit ahead.
We will see at what, when we are going to achieve the 10 million. I don't know if it will be at the end of 2025 or mid-2025, the 10 billion, but okay. The group is solid, and the group is solid because the group has values that somebody have forgotten. The group has a strong management culture, has a very strong leadership, very well-aligned, and is not made only of very old people. You have 8 executive member at the executive committee, and you have here Bhupender Singh.
Bhupinder Singh, who was the CEO of Intelenet when we acquired Intelenet several years ago, who is the Chief Transformation Officer, and who has, in the group, the responsibility of our smart, value-added teams, I mean, consultant and engineers, 2,000 people, 1,800 something. He has the responsibility of the R&D, he has the responsibility of the marketing, he has the responsibility of the Lean Six Sigma and of all our IT teams. That's several thousand people. Of the CISO, which is the security, the data security. You have Bhupinder, you have Eric, you have Miranda, you have Augustine. All these guys are in USA, you cannot say the age, I would say all these guys are in their late forties or very early fifties.
You have Scott Klein, Olivier, who is still young, despite being the Global CFO of Teleperformance, and Leigh Ryan. A strong management, strong deep bench of top leaders. In fact, we have more than 40 people in the management committee, with a significant amount of women, by the way.
More than 30%.
More than 30%. The day there will be 50%, I will be very happy. Cause I actually. Fair, okay. Having said that, having said that, to continue the presentation on Teleperformance strategy and to be more serious, please, Bhupender.
Thank you, Daniel, and hello everyone. Today, I'll start with the brief description of some non-financial business KPIs centered around our employees and our clients and wider ESG themes. I'll get into the group strategy. Starting with the employee metrics. We've been measuring our employee satisfaction for more than 10 years now, and this is done independently by our Knowledge Services division, which is our Analytics Division, and it covers... For example, in 2022, we had more than 55%, so more than 200,000 responses. With that, we had 64% promoters. The way NPS works is people rate you on a score of zero to 10. 10 is good, zero is not good. nine and 10, so A grade in Daniel's parlance, are considered to be promoters, seven and eight are neutral, and zero to six are detractors.
The Net Promoter Score, NPS, is the subtraction of detractors from promoters. We had 64% promoters and 14% detractors, giving us 50. At that scale, it's a very high NPS score. Not many companies have that. That's still internal. Done independently, but internal. We look for external validation of that too. We had Great Place to Work. Again, we were certified. 64 countries now, which is an increase of four versus last year. In addition to that, we were certified in 23 national Best Workplaces list, which is an increase of 10 from the previous year. Daniel touched upon the Fortune recognition, where we were ranked as 11th best workplace in the world. We also have started doing something beyond Great Place to Work, given that majority of our staff are millennials.
We started looking at online sentiment firms like Glassdoor, Indeed, Comparably, MouthShut, and other firms, and we track them. Each of these, we are ranked among the top companies. Glassdoor, we are ranked number two in our industry base. Indeed, fourth. Comparably, first. What's also important to highlight here is the scale again. For example, Glassdoor, the company that is ranked number one, slightly ahead of us, we are 4.2, they are 4.3, is one-tenth our size. All these good employee engagement and sentiment scores have not come by chance. They've come because we have a continuous listening approach where we use different opportunities, different channels to get employee feedback. Just in 2022, we had more than 2.2 million feedback interactions from our staff, including what we call as Moment of Truth surveys.
At different stages of an employee life cycle in the company, we ask them as to how do they feel. We have got daily sentiments. We got pulse surveys or focus groups on some specific topics that we may want to dig deeper. Because of this continuous listening and then finding what the gaps are and continuously closing them is the surveys results that you saw in the previous slide. Moving on to client metrics, client satisfaction. This is again, something that we've been doing for eight years now, and we had our best year ever in 2022. 85% promoters, only 3% detractors. Highest ever promoters, lowest ever detractors, and hence highest ever 82 in terms of NPS. If we go around, there will not be that many companies that have this high NPS score in CSAT.
It's not a huge surprise when the events of late last year unfolded, all our clients stood firmly behind us, and they continued to grow with us. Cloud Campus, this is our remote working value proposition, and we are very excited about it because it increases the talent pool, it improves the quality of life of our staff, and also gives them more flexibility, and also reduces the carbon footprint. As of now, 52% of our staff continue to work from home. Of this 52%, 40% have been confirmed to work remotely even beyond BCP or the business continuity planning. They will continue to work remotely beyond the pandemic. Our program has been well-recognized externally too, and I'll touch upon this a bit later.
Increasingly now, our clients are also asking us to help implement this in their environment. Some other key ESG metrics. We imparted more than 63 million training hours in 2022, which is an average of 166 hours per FT. We hired more than 125,000 people with their first job in this year. We had an internal promotion rate of 63%, which is somewhat less than 71% that we had for this in 2021. The reason for that is because, I'll touch upon in the strategy, we are getting into more specialized verticals, horizontals, and digital areas. While we do have a massive upskilling program. There is a bridge where we do need to hire from external also to meet our growth requirements.
In management positions, 48% are women, and we are working to take it above 50. We continued on our journey of reducing the carbon emissions. It's another 9% reduction per employee this year. Since 2019, since we started tracking it's down almost half. Renewable energy, 28%. In 2021 it was 21%. Another 7% increase there. In terms of our CSR Citizen of the World, Citizen of the Planet initiatives, we have now collected EUR 81 million, which is an increase of EUR 11 million in 2022. Our employees contributed to 99,000 of volunteer hours. Again, an increase versus 2021 when it was about 60,000. I'll be remiss if I don't remind all of us that we started these initiatives well before ESG became a frontline investment and corporate topic. Moving to the group strategy.
It essentially comprises three key elements. one, continue to build our cube, and I'll touch upon it in a minute. Number two, augment our digital capabilities, leveraging TAP, which is technology, analytics, and process consulting. Number three, specialized services. Just like consumer good companies have multiple brands at different price points to cater to different customer segments, this is our equivalent of that. We will have multiple brands to cater to niche segments with different price and margin profiles. Cube. Historically, TP has been a customer experience leader. It has been an execution powerhouse where it has leveraged its vast geographic footprint and capabilities in people management, processes, and systems to deliver a good, consistent brand experience for some of the biggest companies in the world.
While that continues, when we started our transformation journey from being a CX leader to a Digital Integrated Business Services leader about four years back, we started adding two more dimensions. One is line of services. We already had strong capabilities in customer experience. First, we added what we call a CX++, which is sales, collections, real-time interpretation. Gradually we started getting into adjacent lines of services. Things like Trust and Safety, things like horizontal and vertical back office, and most recently, Digital Service s. That's one dimension. The other dimension is getting more expertise in industry verticals so as to be able to offer customized solutions to our clients. I illustrate that with a couple of examples. The first is in bank and financial services. We started. This was our first vertical that we made investments in.
We hired a vertical leader about two years back and supported that leader with domain experts. On the back end, some of our transformation teams, some of our delivery teams were verticalized. What this team started doing was, instead of looking it as a big vertical, industry vertical, where we go in with a very standard plain vanilla approach, they started looking at it in sub-segments. Within those sub-segments, looking at different clients and looking at what their pain points and opportunity areas are, and then using TP products and solutions to customize offerings for them. For example, for some of the neobanks and fintechs who were growing very fast, but on the back end needed scaled operations, we helped them set up their scaled operations. In this sector, regulations and compliance is a big thing.
We've all read about the fines being imposed, the PR risks associated with the non-compliance to regulations. What our team did was they used some of our digital capabilities to further fine-tune and improve KYC, FATCA, AML, and hence deliver value to the clients. The result of this, today the practice is EUR 1.14 billion. We support more than 140 clients. If you look at the growth rate, TP itself has been growing well, and this is growing at almost double the TP's growth rate. Other example of industry verticalization is travel and hospitality. We started on this by appointing a leader for the vertical in Q4 of 2021, and it was the same playbook.
Looked at the sub-verticals within the bigger vertical, within that, looked at different service lines where we could add value and customize our products and solutions to that. The result is similar. Today, we've got 25,000 people servicing more than 60 clients across front office, mid office, back office. With EUR 786 million, we may be the largest player in this sector. If you look at growth last year, 41%. Yes, we did benefit from the travel bounce back, but even after we normalized for that, this is a supernormal growth. This cube strategy is one of the primary reasons why we are cautiously optimistic about the near term, despite the uncertain macro environment.
Really, we have deployed this in two or 2.5 Verticals, the half being healthcare and the two being travel and banking financial services, and one horizontal, Trust and Safety. There are a lot of other verticals we are now doing similar things. We expect to get similar results. Moving to our digital journey, it really started in earnest in 2019, when we took our technology, analytics, and process consulting capabilities and starting leveraging those to deliver our client operations and internal corporate functions safer, faster, and at lower cost. As we built on that maturity, we had enough use cases, we started using those as evidences to start selling more, using that as a differentiator versus traditional competition.
Now we've got to a stage where some of our mature capabilities, whether it's on the consulting side or digital products, we can also start selling them, that's already started in 2022. Without making a conscious sales effort, we already have digital revenues in the range of tens of millions. It is not a huge number as a proportion of overall revenues, but it does have a disproportionate benefit in terms of it being a door opener, it being much higher margin, and also helping us form deeper relationships with our clients. This journey in numbers, we started with about 250 people. Today, more than 1,800. The number of bots that have been deployed exceed 23,000.
In terms of sell more, 67% of all our proposals above 1 million ACV have a transformation component, and our goal is to take it to above 80% in 2023. Now, last two months, with all the news frenzy about ChatGPT and OpenAI, somehow there is a feeling in the world that all these things started only two months back. The reality is, we and our clients have been working on it for the past few years. Today, 72% of our top 200 clients have at least one of TP's top five products embedded in them. The most common are CX Automation. CX Automation are things like converting voice to messaging and then handling the simpler interactions through a Chat Bot, or in peak times, converting inbound to outbound, and again, the simple tier interactions, managing those through bots.
We have our own AI product called Storify, and also we leverage external platforms, be it Twilio, Khoros, CXone. Also, for the last two years, we've had projects on GPT, Generative AI, which is kind of what ChatGPT is a type of. We already have projects in Europe and Latin America on GPT. RPA is deploying bots to automate parts of customer journey so as to improve the customer experience and or our agent experience. TP Recommender is our prescriptive Analytics Tool, which is most applicable in sales and collections situations. TP Interact, as the name suggests, is an automated interaction analysis tool. It is very useful for QA Automation. Historically, in this industry, the typical QA sample is about 2%-5%, and it's done manually. In an automated manner, we can do QA of 100% of the sample.
It also is useful for understanding the root cause analysis, drivers of a particular interaction, so as to improve things upfront. It's also useful for training and coaching our staff to be able to deliver better customer experience. Time Tree is a workflow monitoring and productivity enhancement product. A quick example of Digital Services . This is about consulting. In our case, Digital Services , essentially three components: technology products, analytics, and consulting. This is an example of consulting, where we leveraged our execution powerhouse processes systems, our Cloud Campus, and some of the digital tools that support Cloud Campus, and offered that as a service. We won against one of the top three consulting firms in the world on this project for one of the biggest airlines in the world.
The project itself is only about half a million EUR or so, but more importantly, this has led us to a relationship where we are about to close about EUR 8 million ACV with this client, and the opportunity is in hundreds. The Specialized Services. As you know, we have five Specialized Services business, but in the interest of time, I'll cover only two. LanguageLine Solutions, which is our largest, and PSG, which is the most recent addition. LanguageLine Solutions, it is a real-time interpretation, translation, and localization company with more than 30,000 clients. It provides interpretation services across multiple channels, whether it's audio, video, in person, and the transcription services are obviously asynchronous. One of the questions that has been asked for the past five years about this business is the risk of automation. Again, in the ChatGPT environment, again, this was brought up.
Rather than actually saying much, we thought, let the numbers talk for themselves. The top two charts here give the audio and video minutes for 52 Mondays for the last four years, and we track that as an indicator of volume of the business. If you look at the audio volume, it was around 1.7-1.8 million in 2019. It was consistently above 3 million minutes in end of 2022. On the right side, the video was almost non-existent five years back. Was about 60,000-70,000 in 2019, and we are now hovering above 350,000. We've already had 6 weeks in 2023. This trend continues in 2023. In audio, we've already set a new single-day record of 3.245 minutes.
On video also, we've set new record of 387,000 minutes in a single day. It's not a surprise that if your volume is growing, the demand for interpreters is also increasing. Having said that, it does not mean that we do not look at technologies. We have a digital lab where our LanguageLine team constantly monitors, tests, and then deploys relevant technologies. We also have a few patents in the AI area in this space. Far what we have seen is all the technologies that are available, they are most relevant for translation and transcription in an asynchronous manner. Voice and video even more are difficult to automate.
If you couple that with the demographics of people who are using this service and the mission criticality of situations when this service is invoked, it becomes even more difficult to automate this activity. Just like consumer goods companies, the product may be made in one factory, but when it comes out, it has a different packaging, different pricing profile. We do leverage our back end. More than 4,000 people for LanguageLine Solutions are being provided by our core and DIPS business. As part of our verticalization strategy, we now have joint sales effort across different specialized services that are catering to healthcare. Even LanguageLine, more than 50% is to the healthcare business. Health Advocate, PSG as one company. PSG, the most recent entrant. It is a recruitment process outsourcing company.
I do want to clarify, because this question was asked in a few investor one-to-ones, that it is not a staffing company. It does not take people on its own roll. The people it hires are on its clients' rolls. What it does is leveraging its platform and offshore delivery helps customers hire faster at lower cost. It has more than 4,000 employees and more than 110 customers. As you can look at the stats, both the clients and employees are happy. Finally, the integration with Teleperformance, as Daniel mentioned. TP itself hires more than 30,000 employees every month to take care of its growth and backfill requirements. We've already gone live in Philippines and USA and Alliance One, because these are the geographies where PSG has more capabilities at this stage.
We are currently implementing their services in LanguageLine. We've also incorporated their value proposition in the overall TP sales portfolio. Finally, just like other shared services, we will leverage our corporate shared services of technology, procurement, finance, HR, to provide these services to PSG also. With that, I'll hand over to Olivier.
Good morning to all. I'm going to come back on the figure that has been presented quickly by Daniel, we are going to dig a little more in the figures themselves. Simple figure, I'm going just to mention them. Close to 15% growth in sales. 18% in EBITDA. Close to 18% in EBITDA, finally close to 16% in net results. I've seen worse figure even a difficult time. That's the figures that I just wanted to mention. What is interesting is that not only we grew, I will come back on this growth, we improve dramatically our profitability. It's the first time ever that Teleperformance achieved such a figure of 15.5% operational result.
For those who are knowing us for some years, I just want you to remind what was the figure for 10 years ago, which was in the range of 10 and even below sometimes. That is a journey that we have achieved, and this journey is not over. I'll come back later on on that. This is probably the most interesting slide, just to show the dynamic, the dynamism of the growth of Teleperformance. Of course, you have the currency effect, which is $351 million. EUR 351 million, sorry. You have this famous effect of vanishing of EUR 500 million from COVID line. That was the start of the year. Beyond that, we have been able to grow by close to EUR 1 billion sales in this year organically.
I just want you to stay a minute on this figure, which is EUR 1 billion. Do you imagine what does it mean in term of operational business? We grew close to EUR 1 billion sales activity in 2022, despite this noise, despite this global environment that has been, I would say, at least blurry. The Russian stuff, the recession that is coming, all the stuff at the end of the year. On top of that, of course, we had EUR 265 million coming from scope, which are the impact of Health Advocate in the first half and the acquisition of Senture and the last two months of PHG that just joined the family early November. That is the most important stuff to remember.
Despite this fantastic, difficult year, we have been able to add close to EUR 1 billion sales in our figure. Coming to this slide, I know some of you are puzzled by that, but because we changed our organization, and I know it's. We didn't do that for make your life more complex. I know it's complex for you, but the idea was just to cope with the reality of our business. What is the reality of our business? It's 3 major zone, putting aside Specialized Services. The North American activity, which gather, of course, U.S., Canada, and the two big market factory, which are Philippines and India, that are working mostly for U.S., not only, but mostly for U.S.
On top of that, we had to add APAC on it. That is the bulk of the business that has to be under the US North American name. Ibero LatAm has been I would say limited to Ibero to LatAm, meaning that Spain and Portugal are now joining Europe, and UK, despite the Brexit, joined also Europe. We are now three major market: North America, Europe, and South America. That is the way we are following the business. It's the way we are organized internally also. As you know, we have to report the way we organize I would say internally. Of course, you have Specialized Services that didn't change.
Coming to this famous presentation that is the most complex to read, we have put here the growth by activity for the quarter, for the full year versus last year, like for like, published like for like, and published like for like excluding COVID, which is probably the part that is the most interesting for you. We delivered for the year 12.5%. I know some of you were waiting 13%, it's below. Dramatic. Where that's come from? It's come from mainly two issue. One is Argentina hyperinflation that cost us roughly 1%. I'll come back in a minute to that.
The other one, following what Daniel mentioned about the crisis in the crypto environment, where we had very, very good business last year in Q4 that vanish, of course, this year. If you correct for these two events, roughly 2%, we are roughly in line with what we were delivering in Q3, which was 13.1. Of course, this figure has to be understood without COVID, and this is probably the most difficult way to see that. I'm going to come back region by region in detail to explain you what happened. Let's move now to the results. That's where we have achieved 15.5%, which is a never achieved figures that the group has done over the year.
I'm not even speaking of 2023, where you understood that we are going to add 20 basis point on this figure. Where does this come from? Of course, North America and APAC is back on track. We'll come back later on that. It's India, but also the North American part, which was, I wouldn't say underperforming, but not exactly at level, came back. You see that Europe is of course a little down, given the COVID that disappear. What is more interesting is to see the rise of the Specialized Services, which has been also driven by the TLScontact results that we are going to see in a minute. North America. Growth is 11.3% for the year.
Close to 6% in Q4, maybe seven if you take out the COVID the crypto issue. What is more interesting is to see that the margin has grown dramatically from 10.8 to 12.3%. Where does it come from? North America, domestic. Good activity in India. We know that China, as mentioned by Daniel, is still under complex days. We hope that it will be vanishing again or back to, I would say, normal in 2023. LatAm. LatAm is a star. 15.4% growth in Q4. For the full year, 12.5% in Q4. Why what is impact of Argentina hyperinflation?
Just for you to understand, when you have hyperinflation, you're obliged to correct the figure with the level of the index of the price. At the end of September, the exchange rate of Argentinian pesos went down by 24% versus the 1st day of the year. The price index was plus 26%. Price and exchange rate were aligned. Surprisingly, at the end of the year, the price index on by which we are correcting our figure is plus 34%, so 10% more than three months before. The exchange rate moved from -24% to -62%. It means that probably, and I don't want to enter in detail, that the index of price that has been published by the Argentinian government is not exactly reflecting the reality.
The way we are computing our figure, this is the way we are obliged to do that, and that cost us closely to 0.8% growth in Q4 and 0.2% for the full year. Besides that, the momentum was strong in most countries in the region. Dynamic sector, we mentioned healthcare, social media, online entertainment, and automotive. Lastly, there are some development costs that have been incurred in Q4. As you might have known, we are opening two new country, Belize and Paraguay, that are going to come on top of that next year. As a whole, good figure. Europe. Europe now is including Spain, Portugal, and UK.
Of course, there was a decline in revenue linked to COVID because all the COVID business were in Europe, and this is, has appeared roughly totally. If you take that out, the like-for-like growth for the is quite good. In revenue, it's 10.2% if you exclude COVID, and 11.8% for the Q quarter. Very good figures in Europe, we do believe this is a good trend for the future. Of course, there is an impact of the profitability, but we are staying at the level that is double digit. For those who know us for some years, the 10% was a dream for Europe years ago. Now we are significantly ahead of it. I'm going to finish with the Specialized Service.
I would say a few things to tell. 17.5% growth in Q4. 18.6% for the full year. EBITDA close to 32%. This is, of course, has been driven dramatically by TLScontact that is back on track, that achieve volumes that are higher than what we achieve in 2019. I just wanted to point it out that at the time, at this time, we have no Chinese. That might come back hopefully in 2023. Some final comments on the figure. Very few things to tell. Of course, increase in a non-recurring item due to the performance share plan. I remind for all of you, this is non-cash charges.
This is clearly linked to the success of the group and the fact that the stock price at that time were growing up. Performance Share Plan. Some amortization of intangible assets that grew for two reasons. Of course, of the acquisition and also the dollar that pushes this amount. Also non-cash impact. Operating profit at 14.4%. Let's finish with the financial result and the income tax. Financial result is stable despite the increase of rates. You remember that we took some action early at the end of the first half to secure our finance on the long term and to protect against interest rates.
We are flat versus last year. We pay a lot of tax. I'm sure I'm not going back on what Daniel said about our CSR approach, we are paying tax everywhere where we are incorporated. Finally, our net profit is EUR 645 million. What is even more interesting probably is the cash flow analysis, where we have two issue. When you look the cash flow, we are growing to EUR 700 million, which might seems to be small or insufficient. In fact, we have two issue. We have the impact of EUR 18 million that was social security contributions that have been delayed, especially in UK and in US, following the COVID. We should have paid that last year, we have been paying that this year.
More importantly, as you might remember, we had, we were using temporary agents, notably in UK for the COVID business in 2021. That totally vanish in 2022, and these people were paid late than our classical employees. This has totally disappeared in 2022 and won't continue, of course, in 2023. If you take that out for 2022, this COVID, so-called COVID impact, we were closer to EUR 800 million cash flow. I'm not going to bother you with the balance sheet, except if you have questions. Maybe a quick word about our financial position that is interesting, just to show that out of our EUR 700 million I'm sorry. I should have mentioned. I'm sorry. I forgot to mention that because this is probably something that you are going to ask me later on and to avoid it. Net capital expenditure, we are back
At a classical level, you remember that last year we were at 3.2%, of course, following the COVID. Now we are at 3.6%. I do believe this is, I wouldn't say normative, but something structural for the future. We are going to have a hybrid model, as you understood, both on site, both at home. The 3.5%-3.6% I would say figure is probably normative for the year. I just also want to remind that some years ago we were closer to 5%. Coming to the financial position, what we do with our EUR 700 million last year, we do two things. Of course, we bought PSG, EUR 300 million to make it simple. We use...
We gave back to the shareholders EUR 340 million between dividend and share buybacks that we started to in 2020, in November following the crisis. We have a stable debt. Today, when you look the debt, we are at EUR 2.6 billion, which is a 1.5 times EBITDA, 1.47 if you retreated PSG on a full year basis, which is absolutely not a problem. The cost of this debt is under control. We have paid 1.88% last year. I do believe we are going to increase that a little this year by 20 or 30 basis point, this will be still under control. I'm of course well protected against potential further interest increase in rate.
I'm going to end with two things just to show what we are going to propose as a dividend, which is a 16%, close to 17% growth again in 2022 and 2023, which I've seen a worse figure again. I would just last, just wanted to finish by giving you just a sentiment of the beginning of the year, as we said that January has been solid. Thank you. Is it working? Yes. We are going to now to listen some question. I'm sure there are questions from from there and from from the call, from everybody. Let's start. Let's start here. Okay.
Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Antonin Baudry from HSBC. I have two question. The first one is about your 2023 guidance, solid. I wanted to know what support this guidance in terms of pipeline, in terms of ramp-up of new clients, which sector, which geographies, for revenues on operating margin as well. My second question is about the G of ESG, the governance of the company. We have questions about the evolution of the governance from 2024. I just wanted to know when you will explain us how the governance of the company would evaluate in the future. Thank you.
Maybe I'm going to start by the governance. I guess it's a polite way to ask me when I'm going to retire. I don't know. I don't know. I'm in great shape. In any case, as you can see, first on slide, there is a strong executive committee. As you can see on this table, you see one unusual member of the executive committee presenting. I can tell you that the succession plan, like we say, is well-known by the board. The succession plan can happen in two different manners. Either like some people have a bad accident, and in that case, I can tell you the company will continue very well.
The succession plan can come because, without necessarily me disappearing, let's be clear, a new CEO can come on board. It's not going to happen this year, if you accept the accident. Will it happen in foreseeable future? Absolutely. That's it. You know, there is something when you decide to make a change, you have to make the change at the moment you speak about the change. That's why I'm not going to speak about the change. Okay? Having said that, and I'm in great shape.
Continue.
Having said that, the commitment, we call that commitment within the group, which are the budgets, come from bottom up. They come from bottom up by reviewing client by client the expectation. It's a long process. By having discussion with the clients and so on. By seeing the normal statistics of contribution of new business. By looking at some vertical, then by analyzing the pipeline, everything being on Salesforce, you know, everything is measured, slice, dice, trendished, whatever. We come to a commitment. Right now, with what is foreseeable, we feel comfortable to say that we are going to have an organic growth, excluding the COVID line, of 10%. I don't know if it will be 9.5 or 10.5. Honestly, that's a level of precision that we don't know. We have very satisfied client.
We have a strong business development team. We have a strong TAP team. We slice and dice the cube that Bhupi was explaining. When we do all this operation, we feel decently comfortable. By the way, We saw that maybe the first quarter would be a little bit challenging. By the way, in fact, when we look at the results of January, they are perfectly in line with what we say. Okay, January is just one month out of 12. I know. It's better when the results first months are in line than when they are not in line. Yes, you want to say something?
I just wanted to tell you, to remind you, Antonin, that this is out without COVID. We know that the impact of the COVID will be mostly happening in Q1. The figures that Daniel is mentioning is without COVID. Of course, the like for like with COVID will be smaller and probably impacted in Q1 until by COVID.
Until the extinction of the COVID story. On underlying, excluding COVID, we are really synchronized right now in the delivery of the operation with our planning. We have no specific signs of weaknesses. We are going to continue to grow, of course, in the vertical that are pretty strong right now, which are obviously travel and accommodation and TLS for the service. We are probably going to continue to have a very solid year in LanguageLine because, you know, there is more and more immigration, even if the people don't like immigration. By the way, they are wrong because immigration makes the wealth of the country, but that's another story.
We think that we are going to continue to grow with the social platform, with the digital platform, all this part of the economy that remains dynamic. You have something that will get stronger and stronger, and that is very important for us, which is the healthcare market in the U.S. We plan to push more on the healthcare market on the U.S. When we put all together our activities, I mean, specialized service and core service on the healthcare market on the U.S., we are positioned in the top leadership of the business service companies for the U.S., for the U.S. healthcare market. That was presented, I think, in. What is the company who does that? You know. Everest.
That was presented in Everest Group few months ago. This is an answer to part of... I think this is an answer to your question. There is something else that I wanted to say because Olivier did not mention it, but I think it's something important, and it's also important to explain why we are pretty confident in the margin. Here, I'm not speaking about the top line, but about the margin. In fact, there is something a little bit specific in the Q4 2022. If you look at the U.S. and APAC, you see that the U.S. and APAC growth is lower than the growth in the other region. Is it because we have a problem in U.S. and APAC? Not at all.
It is exactly a switch, but a positive switch, and so a growth in volume between a decrease of domestic U.S. business and an increase, but a stronger increase of the business in the Philippines. Not the same price point, but better margin. Am I clear?
There was another question there.
Sorry.
Thank you very much. It's Oscar from JPMorgan. I think going back on the outlook is quite important. A lot of tech companies in the US have announced layoffs. Can you just talk about new outsourcing, and are you seeing new outsourcing with your customers? The second question is just on wage inflation. What levels are you seeing in the US and Europe? Could you quantify that, or could you talk about is that getting better or worse? The final question. Sorry. You talked about over the last three years, transitioning a bit more or significantly into digital Business Services . Are you competing against different companies now? Is it less of the traditional biz kind of, content, customer management companies and more the Accentures and the consulting companies?
Okay. Very quickly. We are seeing a massive change from in-house to outsourcing. We see positive moves. I'm not saying that right now it's a barrage. Yeah, not a barrage. I mean, I can say that today it's a flow, but for example, we signed in the financial business, a significant financial business that can be one of our locomotive. That is a company that never outsourced before. That's an example. One tree doesn't make a forest. Second, on the wage inflation, we have two different way to consider it. Typically, the wage inflation when we offshore, in fact there is a typically, in most of the case, there is a devaluation of the offshore currency versus the hard currency versus the dollar that help us to cover the wage inflation.
It happen 90% of the case, sometime you have currencies that are stubborn. This becomes a problem, like the Mexican peso. We know why the currency is stubborn, because right now Mexico is taking a super advantage of the decoupling of U.S. and China economy. In that case, we have a reduction of margin. Then we have to adjust. In some cases, it's the opposite. We can have an increase of margin.
Yeah.
Until you have a stabilization. When we are domestic to domestic, typically, you know, our clients are large responsible companies. Even though at the beginning it's a little bit difficult to renegotiate the term of a contract, we renegotiate the term of contract to neutralize the effect of the wage inflation on our margin. On your competition, beside, yes, clearly beside the usual suspect, the business service world is not a world where you have every category of company well-ranked in a cluster. I mean, it's very porous from one type of company to another type of company in terms of business. Basically, yes.
Teleperformance, it happened that Teleperformance is in competition with Accenture or with Cognizant, with other Indian BPOs. Sometimes we are in competition with them because we are entering their usual territory. Sometimes they are in competition with us because they are entering our usual territory. I mean, it's part of, you know, it's like the tectonic plates in the continent moves. Fortunately, we don't have earthquake. It's clear that with the profile that Bhupinder presented to you, and which is a profile that is at work for years, it's not just... It did not came three months ago because we had to make a presentation now. Teleperformance's competitive universe is larger than before. Which mean that our opportunities are larger than before.
Maybe some question from outside, from the.
Sure. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we'll now take our audio question from Simona Soli at Bank of America. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Yes. Good morning, and thank you very much for taking my questions. A couple of them, please. First of all, a quick update on content moderation. Can you please talk a little bit to the commercial momentum there? Also following your decision to exit highly egregious content, so far, have you lost any of the existing contracts, and how is impacting your discussions regarding the new business? We'll take the questions one by one. Thanks.
Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Simona. Answer to your second question: No, we've not lost anything. The momentum continues. We are forecasting our 2023 content moderation business and the wider Trust and Safety business to be higher than what it was in 2022. Despite what we announced, we will grow in this business.
Thank you. Is there any way that you can indicate, so what is the growth expectation for 2023? If you will still be organic growth accretive to the group? Secondly, Bhupender, if you can please give some tangible examples of how you are now considering separating in different queues egregious from highly egregious. Thank you.
Yeah. In terms of the numbers, my simple rule is to always direct you to Olivier. I can answer the second question first. As we have discussed and also mentioned in wider forums, one of the challenges the industry has is there is no industry-wide standard definition of highly egregious. What exists today are different platforms' policies. While there is some similarity, but they also are different. What we have done is we've made an operative definition bases the content and the frequency of occurrence of that content. Now we are in discussions with different platforms to get that consistency. We've got good feedback on that, but we've not had any major challenges. More importantly, from a financial impact on Teleperformance, it will be... We can safely say that it will be next to nothing. It's very negligible, component of our Trust and Safety business.
Simona, to answer your question, maybe the best way is to tell you that the growth that we plan for Trust and Safety is not dilutive to our global growth.
Thank you. That's very clear. If I may, one last question. Regarding and going back to your outlook for 2023, you're guiding for a margin improvement of 20 basis points. You have already mentioned that obviously there is an element of strong growth in the Philippines as a positive contribution from offshore. Is there any other moving part that will be contributing to this margin progression in 2023?
There are, of course, add on different different stuff. You have the growth that might, that will probably happen from the Specialized Services and probably the growth from TLScontact. That is going to help. The mix is going to help the margin. Secondly, I'm sure you have noticed that the North American part is improving since now two years. This movement will continue. That is a second part. The third part is, of course, the China that might come back not only for travel but also for our business locally. We hope that APAC is going to be better. Of course, there's still a negative effect coming from the remaining COVID business that is going to vanish. As a whole, we made this computation of 20 basis points.
I didn't even mention the work that is which is launched today to, I would say to control the cost, closer in this dice and slice, I would say, global environment that is new for Teleperformance.
Yeah. There is one point that I would like to underline, which is the fact that we are very bullish on India. We have already 90,000 people working there. India, every day, prove that it has the quantitative and the qualitative resources that we need to deliver our Digital Integrated Business Services. We are going to continue to push India, where we welcomed in 2022, from outside a new, very seasoned but brilliant CEO. It's going to be a point important in the building of the future of Teleperformance. All the points, because I would like to come back again on the Q4 USA. I just made a calculation briefly.
In fact, during the Q4, we had, for every one individual that you can invoice that we lost domestic in the USA, we grew 3 x the number of individual in the Philippines. When you know that the price of the Philippines, the price point of the Philippines is more or less 2.2 x less than the price domestically speaking. It's just to explain or maybe to put in light something that I very often explain, which is the anti-crisis characteristic of our business. In fact, when the economy is booming, there are new product, new service, a lot of activities, so a lot of frictions, so a lot of need of Teleperformance. When the activity is booming, Teleperformance generally does well. When the economy is in crisis, all the companies are searching for.
Cost
Cost-cutting, typically. The one that we're in-house, they are considering to outsource. The one that we're outsourcing a small part, they want to outsource a larger part. Typically, if you can find that, you know, in the crisis, 2009, 2010, 2011, we continue to grow. Clearly we are in the year 2023, where there is going to be a new push. It's amazing because it's very far from the political stance that we can hear. There will be a new push for offshoreization.
Just a question from... I will come back to later.
Patrick. [Foreign Language] Two very classic questions. First one on currencies. With a weaker USD, weaker Colombian peso, could you elaborate a bit on what you expect for currency in 2023, where revenue and margins? Second question, could you elaborate a bit also on the M&A pipeline, please?
I'm going to take the currency. Weaker dollar, you remember that there is 2 effect. One is translation and one is.
Conversion
Transaction. Sorry. Translation might have an effect, maybe because we are going to be a little less at good levels than last year. We are today at 107 versus 105, it's not going to be a drama so far on the conversion effect. On the transaction effect, as you can imagine, we have hedged a significant part of our business significantly in advance. I'm speaking out of the control of Olivier Rigaudy, who is there. We are around 70%-75% of our exposures that is covered. I'm not sure we have covered badly Colombian pesos, Philippine pesos, and Indian rupee, which are the three most important currency to be covered. There are some exceptions, Daniel mentioned about Mexican or the dinar. There are others that are also positive. As a whole, it's not going to be a burden in, as we can say today, for 2023.
The second question was the M&A pipeline I don't know if it's due to the fact that during the last three months, we have been burdened by the distraction that I was mentioning before. Our activity on M&A has been pretty slow over the last three months. It doesn't mean that we do not have opportunities. The fact is that right now in the market, the same name come over and over from the M&A teams of the banks. That same names, some present, some interest, some less. Right now, there is nothing super hot that tells us that an acquisition is going to happen in the first half of the year.
We now are going to be a little bit more free, to be a little bit more proactive, so it can speed up the agenda. You know us, we never force the calendar. I mean, at the time, there will be the right acquisition at the right price, we will try to do it.
We have the means to do it, you understood that.
Yeah. Yeah. Fortunately, several big financial institution have a strong trust in Teleperformance.
Maybe other question from?
Online.
Online.
Sure. We'll now take our next question from Suhasini Varanasi at Goldman Sachs. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Thank you. A couple from me, please. On slide 26, you actually show the TP One Office that covers Customer Services , Business Services , and Sales Operations . Can you give us some idea how big each of these are in the mix within DIPS? Is that something that you track or have targets for medium-term? It'll be just interesting to see how the transition is progressing. I can take the questions one by one. Thank you.
That's for you. It will be...
Yeah, this is the cube mix. Yeah. Suhasini Varanasi, we do track, or we have started tracking only from last year, our revenues and gross margins by line of service. At the moment, majority is still in the first two, the Customer Services and Business Services , and Sales Operations also is kind of fits in. The other two are not huge numbers in terms of revenue, but in terms of growth rate, they are much, much higher. Specifics of each of these things, I'm not sure whether we have started disclosing them or not.
No. Just to be clear, Suhasini, we want to stay on the, I would say, on the presentation, on the scope that we present a minute ago. I understood that already some analysts were unhappy that we changed the sector. I'm not going to add new line of product to make your life more complex. We are not going to report by line of business so far.
Internally, we do track it. We started last year.
Yeah, we track everything internally, as you can imagine. We love that. We love tracking.
Yes. Thank you very much. The next question is on that, Olivier, on the business segment change. Appreciate that you need to realign the businesses every now and then. It does become a bit difficult to see the trends historically. Will you be able to share a few more years of historics, please, under the new format? It would be very helpful to do.
You want me to-
A analysis on the trend.
You want us to deliver two reporting, one on the previous one and one on the new one? That's exactly what you ask from...
No.
No.
The second one is.
Several years.
On the actual numbers.
Several years before.
You've already given it for two years. If you have it for a few more years, I think that would be really helpful. The other one is more like, are you tracking the transition, so.
It might be possible. Let me check that point, and I believe we are able to do so. I don't know when, but we have no problem to do it anyway. We are working on that, and we will be able to share it in a week from now.
We would do everything to please all our stakeholders.
Thank you. Just the last one, please, on PSG. It was growing at 40% CAGR, 2019-2022. I appreciate that maybe the growth rates are not sustainable going into 2023, but just would be helpful to understand how you are seeing the growth numbers. Is it like running at 20%+ in your numbers or 30%+? Just because it's a decent margin component for 2023. Thank you.
Me?
Yeah.
You speak better English than us.
Yeah. Yes, obviously there will be a slowdown. It won't be 40% CAGR.
Of course.
It will still be double digits, and it will be as per our business case. We don't foresee a big issue there. Other thing that we also need to understand, what I was talking about, we hire 30,000 or more than 30,000 people within TP. We would be leveraging capabilities of that because from the early estimates that we have done, their cost to hire is 50%-60% less than what TP's cost per hire is in similar geographies. There is a sizable benefit to be had to divert some of the resources also for TP's internal hiring.
Thank you very much.
Other question from online? We are going to.
Yes, we do. We'll take our next question from Anvesh Agrawal at Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Please go ahead.
Hi, good morning. I will also sort of go one by one if that's okay. First, just to follow up on the outlook and the guidance. Obviously, Q4 had some specific impacts from crypto, hyperinflation. Possibly there was some sort of management time taken away because of all the events, and looks like sort of January has started really well for you. The question really is like, TP is known to provide sort of guide conservatively, and is your 10% guide baking in the sufficient sort of conservatism within that or not, or that's kind of the best number you could deliver sort of this year, given what the macro environment is? Maybe if you want to take that up first, please.
You know, as mentioned, there are some uncertainty in 2023. I'm sure people have understood that. Even Daniel was telling that we were around 10%, and it's not because January has been good that we are going to change our guidance today. Frankly, it's difficult to tell. The global environment seems to be reasonably well. There are some huge strategies that should help to grow. There are some sectors that might be supportive. There are things that we don't know. Starting 17th of February, we are going to stay where we are, let's say.
You know, typically, when we build our budget, we always integrate the unknown factor. The unknown factor is the bad hit that we are going to get during the year. We don't know what it is. We don't know exactly how much it will be, we know that it will exist. This is factoring this bad hit that we give our guidance, and that help us sometimes to increase our guidance mid of the year. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. You know, in 45 years of managing, I have never seen one year going smooth like it was planned in the budget.
Yeah, sorry. Go ahead. Yeah, that's clear. The second question I have is on Health Advocate. I mean, that's sort of the business which I remember had difficulties last year. I'm just wondering how's the business performing now? I believe there were some sort of changes at the top level within that business as well.
Okay. Health Advocate, first is an excellent business, very good business model. When we acquired this company, a lot of shared services were managed by their previous parent company. We had a period of something most of last year, taking over a system from the ex-parent company to integrate there. It was a period of integration. Health Advocate continued to deliver a healthy margin, but not enough dynamic. We came to the decision to put in place a new CEO at Health Advocate, who is a seasoned managers, coming from LanguageLine, by the way, but who knew Health Advocate in a previous life.
He took over a company that he knew, system, because Health Advocate has a lot of data and a lot of system. He took over this system. The guy is a super smart leader and IT manager. We expect Health Advocate, being under the double leadership of the new CEO and the governance coming from Scott Klein, who is the head of the Specialized Services, to have a much better profile coming this year and in the years to come. It's a process.
If I can add one thing there, which is again, a cross-pollination between different parts of Teleperformance. In Health Advocate, similar to what was done in LanguageLine Solutions, we have now added a video channel. As you've seen, the chart that I showed to you, the way the video channel has grown, it's both more resilient and in a higher margin business is even more margin. We've already initiated that in Health Advocate. Just to comment, I just wanted not to let the impression that Health Advocate is not generating good margin. This is a very good business. Lastly, I believe that Mr. Julian has to leave us. I don't know if there is a very-.
Last question.
Very last question.
Yeah, just one follow-up. China being a drag, can you tell us how big that is a part of the D.I.B.S. and TLS fees? What's the exposure there?
What was it?
I didn't catch your question. How much TLS was?
I'm saying how big China is within D.I.B.S. and TLS?
Oh, TLS.
No, China.
China was between 15% and 20% before the crisis.
What?
Of volume. Of volume.
Of what?
TLSP
Of TLSP. TLSP.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Excuse us, sir. It was difficult to understand from here. We would like to thank you very much after these two years.
No. No. After these two hours. It's a lapsus linguae. After this two hours meeting, it's always a pleasure to interact with you. Thank you very much.