Universal Registration Document 2025

Since 2021, a Group course called L’Avenue has been set up to mark the first 133 days of newcomers. It consists of several modules: face-to-face meetings with the Groupe’s managers, online training sessions, workshops and social events to build a sense of belonging to the Company.

Lastly, relations with academic institutions (high schools, schools and universities) and training organizations enable cooperation on current or future changes to the training courses of future professionals (see Section 4.1.8). With the deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI), all functions related to the Groupe’s key business lines are subject to specific planning and training, as they are evolving quite rapidly.

Changes in data over several years are available on the Groupe website in the CSR section under “CSR Smart data.”

AI Employee Training Strategy: With the arrival of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) tools in 2023, all employees had access on Marcel to Publicis GPT, a dedicated test environment to discover different tools for image generation. At the same time, the use of AI has become subject to the Generative AI Acceptable Use Guidelines or AI Legal Guidelines. These policies and guides have been distributed to all employees in order to address important subjects, such as verifying information on the models used to train AI, personal data protection, respect for intellectual property, etc. On Marcel, a dedicated section entitled PL.AI was set up with all the modules available. An ad hoc training program has been developed by Publicis Sapient to give employees a precise framework on Generative AI Ethics and Responsible Use. This program was extended to all Groupe employees in 2025.

• 94% of employees received training or attended a Learning & Development program in 2025.
• 2,402,682 hours of training were provided during the year – i.e. nearly 22 hours per capita (based on the number of employees trained). The gender gap is based on the fact that in tech professions, where there are far more men than women, there are many technical training courses leading to qualifications, which are essential for these employees to participate in certain technology projects. These data take into account the training courses completed by employees; the hours of employees who have left the Group and partially completed modules are not taken into account.

/ Average number of training hours per employee by gender [S1-13-83 (b)]