Public workforce: use AI to reduce administration, not public service

Starting point: 5.85 million public employees

DGAFP counted 5.85 million public employees at end-2024. This includes radically different occupations, so a blanket headcount cut would be a poor analytical method.

Target tasks before jobs

Map repetitive, decision, relational and physical tasks; automate low-value back-office work first; measure actual time released; then use natural attrition or redeployment where workload has genuinely disappeared.

Protect priority missions

Justice, security, health and sovereign functions can receive redeployed staff while duplicated administrative layers are reduced.

Official sources

1. DGAFP workforce
2. DGAFP AI framework