What the Groupe, networks and agencies can do for employees.

Our policy: To improve the skillsets of our teams
Our objective: To ensure that employees work efficiently and are fulfilled at work.

With 45 000 employees, Publicis Groupe pays particular attention to its employees and their progress within the Groupe. Human resources management remains highly decentralised, in order to better respond to the needs of each agency in its own market and respect the culture and policies of each of our major networks.

Despite the crisis of 2008/2009, and above and beyond the efforts that every member of staff worldwide were asked to make, the Groupe, its networks and its agencies maintained an active training policy, pursuing the two major strategies from 2008: improving digital knowhow and reinforcing managerial skills. The crisis makes it all the more necessary to prepare our employees for the digital challenge ahead; this challenge is undoubtedly the key to performance in a market that started to accelerate during the crisis and has continued to do so ever since.

The Groupe was forced to reduce headcount by more than 3 000 employees over 2009 in response to a record drop in revenues. This reduction in staff numbers was undertaken by prioritising voluntary departures and cutting back recruitment, but did not exclude more specific and broader-sweeping restructuring measures where necessary, principally in countries or markets that were in particularly steep decline.