I worked for FT 1996-2000, so before these events. One point worth keeping in mind is they had a surge of hiring in the 70s when the French government invested

I worked for FT 1996-2000, so before these events. One point worth keeping in mind is they had a surge of hiring in the 70s when the French government invested massively in digitizing the phone network after decades of neglect. Trying to retrain them into the new jobs required for the Internet era was always going to be a struggle.