Launched in 2022 by Club Landoy in partnership with the L’Oréal Group, the 50+ Charter is France’s leading cross-company framework for commitment to the employment of older workers. It structures the signatories’ actions around ten concrete points covering the entire career path: recruitment, training, internal mobility, skills transfer, and retirement preparation.

By 2026, the collective represents more than 4 million employees. For the first time, major national and regional public entities—including the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Île-de-France region, and the city of Versailles—have joined the initiative, alongside companies of all sectors and sizes.

In interim management, the issue of age is approached differently than in traditional hiring. Yet we still sometimes hear the phrase: “too senior.” This is a counterproductive reflex for companies that fall into this trap.

An experienced interim manager over 50 is a professional who is immediately ready to hit the ground running. They have already navigated situations comparable to those faced by the client company. They arrive with solutions, proven methods, and the ability to see the organization as a whole, including its blind spots. Experience is gained over time: this is a fact that the professional world sometimes forgets.

Signing the 50+ Charter means aligning our practices with our convictions and committing to measuring and advancing our actions on this issue.

France’s lag is well-documented and significant. In France, the employment rate for people aged 55–64 stands at 60.4%, compared to a European average of 65.2%, 75.2% in Germany, and 77.8% in Switzerland (OECD data, 2026).

Among the signatories of the Charter, the 2026 results show real momentum:

34% of the workforce is over 50, an increase of 2 percentage points in one year
More than 1 in 5 hires involves a candidate aged 50 or older (an increase of 3 percentage points in one year)
More than 1 in 4 training hours benefits older employees
1 in 4 internal mobility transfers involves an employee aged 50 or older
405 initiatives supporting older employees have been identified among signatories since 2024

These data are drawn from the 50+ Indicators, a shared database contributed to by 114 organizations in 2026.

Today, one in three employees in France is over 50 years old. This demographic reality is transforming organizations, which must rethink their recruitment and career management practices.

For ADN Transition, this transformation is at the heart of what we do. Our interim managers take on high-stakes assignments with tight deadlines. A large proportion of them are over 50. This is precisely what makes them overqualified for the assignments we entrust to them: they have already solved the problem elsewhere, in a different sector or at a different company size.

Seniors are not a problem to be managed. They are a resource that many companies still underutilize. ADN Transition is here to prove it, assignment after assignment.