Thibaut Guilluy, director general of France Travail, presented 2025 results and 2026 outlooks on January 30. In an interview with Le Monde, he highlights that political and geopolitical crises immediately impact the job market. He reviews the public operator's transformation, started since his arrival in December 2023.
France Travail, formerly Pôle emploi since January 1, 2024, unveiled its 2025 results and 2026 directions during a presentation on Friday, January 30. Thibaut Guilluy, heading the organization since December 21, 2023, is the architect of its deep transformation.
In an interview with Le Monde, Guilluy explains that this reform aims to organize actors to support every French person in their professional journey and to aid enterprises—private, public, or associative—in finding candidates and creating jobs. “It’s a very deep reform that doesn’t happen in one or two years,” he states. Over the first two years, foundations were laid: registration of all job seekers, establishment of local committees, creation of France Travail Pro, and various experiments.
Guilluy also laments the staff reduction planned in the 2026 budget. He stresses the immediate repercussions of instabilities: “All forms of instability have immediate effects on the job market.” Political crises and geopolitical tensions thus weigh on employment, according to him.
