The mobility, construction and energy sectors offer formal employment opportunities for millions of people around the world. Present in more than 120 countries, the Group’s companies help create strong local employment markets and support regional development through their operations. VINCI is a multi-local group, employing nearly 294,000 people around the world. In 2025, Group companies recruited more than 84,000 workers as the various worksites and projects entrusted to them entered their launch phase. Given the cyclical nature of activities in the construction and energy sectors, which account for the majority of its workforce, and the mobile nature of its projects, the Group has a particularly dynamic approach to employment and opens up new opportunities in the regions where it operates.
Unless required by specific contexts, the Group always prioritises local employment, with many of its customers demanding this approach for their projects. Alongside this, VINCI companies always aim to integrate their operations into local economies. The Group thus strives to work with companies of all sizes, including very small businesses and SMEs, which are essential links in the regional development chain.
To provide an objective assessment of these strong local roots and better understand their potential knock-on effects, VINCI has launched various studies since 2014 to measure the socio-economic footprint and impacts of projects or companies, using the Local Footprint® tool developed by Utopies©. These studies help identify the specific inputs by Group companies to the economy, while quantifying VINCI’s strong roots in local economies and across its supply chain. Following various trial initiatives on projects, studies were also launched covering all activities in France. In 2024, the third study was completed on the scope of operations in France, based on 2023 data. Like the previous two reviews, this study confirmed the deep impact of VINCI companies both nationally and locally, covering direct, indirect and induced impacts, from employment to value distribution along a relatively short supply chain, made up primarily of national and local stakeholders.
The key findings from this research are presented on the Group’s website (https://www.vinci.com/en/actions-and-missions/our-actions/ partnership-cities-and-regions/socio-economic-footprints). In 2025, the results and methodology for this research continued to be shared with the teams in France through presentations, as well as a dedicated socio-economic footprint platform on the intranet, which is available to all employees throughout the Group. This platform presents the approach, methodology, results and potential areas to be worked on. More than 70 new summaries were added to supplement the information already online. Measuring the socio-economic footprint of business activities contributes to the review by certain business lines of their regional responsibility strategy and helps them look into possible ways to maximise their positive impacts on regions and their local communities.
Similar studies were also carried out covering VINCI Autoroutes and the entire global scope of VINCI Airports. The findings from these studies are presented in VINCI Concessions’ Engagement Report for 2024-2025 (https://engagementreport.vinci-concessions.com/2024-2025/ doc/article/C1/).
In addition to the number of local jobs created or supported, the Group is committed to supporting the employability of people working at its sites by offering them opportunities to develop their skills. To promote this commitment and help deliver results, Group companies roll out a range of initiatives to create training capacity for people recruited locally, especially on major projects. These initiatives are intended to help people find work again in the same regions following the completion of these projects.
For instance, the Skill Up programme rolled out by VINCI Construction Grands Projets aims to develop the knowledge and skills of operational and supervisory staff (manual workers, team leaders and site managers) around the world by setting up training centres tailored to the requirements of each project. With courses delivered to all categories of employees, as well as subcontractors and partners, the centres help improve the employability of all workers following the completion of work at Group sites. All the training programmes are covered by a final assessment, with a certificate that participants will be able to use with other employers once the project has ended. To promote the recognition of these courses and the employability of the people recruited, VINCI Construction Grands Projets, like many other Group companies, also works with the local training ecosystem (vocational colleges, technical training centres, etc.). Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction in Africa) offers another illustration of this commitment to promoting local employment and developing skills. This division, which wants to build and maintain a sustainable pool of skills, set up its own training centre, which is now located in Côte d’Ivoire. Known as Africa Pro, this centre manages training for all Sogea-Satom subsidiaries and branches across 18 countries, and provided more than 18,522 hours of training for 758 participants in 2025. In addition to the training provided directly by Africa Pro, local agencies organised 32,693 hours of training for 2,697 trainees.
As they are highly labour intensive, VINCI’s energy, road and construction activities have substantial direct, indirect and induced impacts on regional employment. The Group’s businesses are also social integrators and proud to welcome all profiles, whatever their background or training. Its sectors offer extensive opportunities for social and professional integration, with a wide range of accessible careers that are open to everyone. The Group has a long-standing commitment to supporting social and professional integration for disadvantaged populations, including the long-term unemployed and young people, by setting up structured and sustainable initiatives to guide its approach (VINCI Insertion Emploi, Give Me Five, social joint ventures, etc.) or developing key partnerships with integration structures in many different communities, ensuring an effective response to a real social issue, while preparing the future employees of Group companies.
VINCI Insertion Emploi
Launched in 2011, VINCI Insertion Emploi (ViE) supports the Group’s companies in France with their integration and employment policies. This structure reflects the Group’s strong commitment to developing its expertise in these areas and implementing measures that go beyond regulatory requirements. These ambitions are driven at the highest level within the Group, and specifically by VINCI’s Vice-President for Human Resources, who is also President of ViE.
