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TotalEnergies Headquarters & offices · Courbevoie, France
TotalEnergies · Courbevoie, France
A new headquarters in France's tallest tower, where two wings are joined by 30 garden walkways and no one is more than a 30-second walk from the open air.
The Link, the Care Together benefits and a century of company history — then the business. Every number from TotalEnergies' own Universal Registration Document and Form 20-F, its websites, the architect's page and Paris La Défense.
- 30garden walkways (“links”) between The Link's two wings
- 14 weeksminimum fully paid leave for a first parent, worldwide
- 8.9%of the company owned by its employees (2025)
- 101,513employees in 93 countries (2025)
Sources: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025 (via Form 20-F 2025, Exhibit 15.1) · careers.totalenergies.com · PCA-STREAM project page “The Link” · Paris La Défense
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THE NEW HEADQUARTERS · THE LINK, PARIS LA DÉFENSE · 2026
Two towers joined by 30 garden walkways
PCA-STREAM split The Link into two wings — the “Arche” wing and the lower “Seine” wing — joined over 30 floors by walkways more than 8 m wide, planted with gardens. Linked floors make 3,000 m² plates, and open staircases pair them into 6,000 m² duplexes for up to 500 people, where people move on foot rather than by lift. Terraces, hanging gardens, winter gardens and two rooftop gardens add 2,800 m² of outdoor space, and every workstation has daylight. Inside are 10 cafés and restaurants, 3 auditoriums, a business centre, a sports venue and a medical centre.
- 135,000 m² (≈ 1.45 million sq ft)
- 30 “links” between two wings
- 2,800 m² of terraces and gardens
- Up to 500 people per duplex
- Design: PCA-STREAM
- HQE Exceptionnel
The Link, completed (2025–2026)
PCA-STREAM designed The Link as two wings joined by 30 garden walkways, with duplex floors of 6,000 m² for up to 500 people.
Building The Link (2020–2022)
VINCI built The Link; PCA-STREAM photographed the works from 2020 to 2022.
Facts: PCA-STREAM project page “The Link” (programme and technical specifications) · Paris La Défense project page “The Link” · thelink-ladefense.com
The Paris La Défense headquarters
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| The Link (new headquarters, keys handed over June 2026) | Cours Michelet, Esplanade Sud, 92800 Puteaux (Paris La Défense), France |
| Tour Coupole (registered office in the 2025 Form 20-F) | 2, place Jean Millier, La Défense 6, 92400 Courbevoie, France |
Source: Form 20-F 2025 cover (registered address) · PCA-STREAM and Paris La Défense project pages (The Link location; no street number published) · See them on the map ↓
Source: PCA-STREAM project page “The Link” (team, area, certifications) · Paris La Défense project page “The Link” (heights above the Parvis, floors, outdoor spaces, energy). Paris La Défense gives 130,000 m² and the architect 135,000 m²; heights of 242 m / 241 m quoted elsewhere are construction heights.
Benefits (Care Together, worldwide minimums)
At least 14 weeks for the birth or adoption of a child, on 100% of base salary, in every country; more where local rules are better.
At least 2 weeks on 100% of base salary, under a family-neutral policy that includes same-sex couples.
The first parent returning from leave gets a raise equal to the average of their individual raises over the last three years.
At least two years' gross reference salary, whatever the cause; over 90% of permanent employees are covered.
2026 capital increase for employees in about 100 countries: 20% discount plus one free share for each share bought, up to ten.
Every other Friday is free of collective meetings scheduled by management.
A biennial health check-up for all employees, plus a global program to prevent psychosocial risks.
Direct pay at least equal to the living wage of the country or region where each employee works.
Source: TotalEnergies news release “Care Together by TotalEnergies” (March 21, 2024) · Universal Registration Document 2025, §5 (Care Together action plan; 2026 employee capital increase) · careers.totalenergies.com “Benefit from a quality package” and “Take care of yourselves and your families”
Why people stay: what TotalEnergies itself describes
Employees held 8.91% of the share capital at the end of 2025. In 2025, 62,796 current and former employees in 97 countries joined the employee capital increase.
In 2025; 98% of employees took at least one training course. More than 510,000 training days in all.
An annual well-being survey based on 7 criteria; the 2025 score rose from 2024.
No collective meetings scheduled by management, so employees can organise their own work — worldwide since 2023.
Departures from permanent contracts, including retirements (14.6% in 2024).
An upskilling program launched in 2022; its “Digital Accelerator” season focuses on generative AI, with Microsoft Copilot rolled out alongside training.
Source: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025 (§5, employee shareholding, workforce and Care Together indicators) · careers.totalenergies.com “Enjoy a working environment designed with you in mind” and “Benefit from a quality package”
Who works here
nationalities
people in France (34.9%)
of senior executives are women
people hired on permanent contracts in 2025
Source: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025, §1 and §5 (workforce by segment, gender, France, recruitment, senior executives). Refining & Chemicals includes Hutchinson (39.8% of the workforce). Gender percentages calculated by eciffo from 37,292 women and 64,221 men.
Pay at TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies publishes ratios, not the median amount. The Chairman and CEO's pay was 72 times the median pay of TotalEnergies SE's 3,444 permanent employees, and 116 times the median for a wider French scope of 20,662 employees. Includes variable pay, profit-sharing, employer social charges and performance shares.
Source: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025, §4 (ratios under Article L. 22-10-9 of the French Commercial Code, Afep guidelines)
TotalEnergies publishes headcount by age group for new hires but not pay by age.
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Office history: from the Compagnie française des pétroles to France's tallest tower
- 1924 Compagnie française des pétroles is founded
On March 28, 1924, the Compagnie française des pétroles (CFP) was created on the initiative of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré to develop a national oil policy. Ernest Mercier was its first chairman. The Total brand followed in 1954.
Source: totalenergies.com “TotalEnergies, pioneers for a Hundred Years” · URD 2025 §1.1.2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1999 Tour Total, 24 cours Michelet
Total's principal offices were at Tour Total, 24 cours Michelet, La Défense 10, in Puteaux, when it bid for Petrofina in 1999 and became TotalFina.
Source: Total Schedule 13D on Petrofina (SEC, April 1999)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2000 Tour Coupole becomes the headquarters
On March 22, 2000, after the merger with Elf Aquitaine, TotalFina became TotalFinaElf and moved its headquarters to Tour Coupole, 2 place de la Coupole, La Défense 6, in Courbevoie. The company took the name TOTAL in 2003.
Source: TotalFinaElf Schedule 13D/A (SEC, October 2000) · Form 20-F 2002 and 2008
In front of the Total tower, La Défense, 2020 · TCY / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2008 Same tower, new address: 2 place Jean Millier
From 2008, the company's filings give the headquarters address as 2 place Jean Millier, La Défense 6. In 2021 Total became TotalEnergies; the Form 20-F for 2025 still lists this address as the registered office.
Source: TOTAL S.A. filings on Form 6-K (SEC, October 2008) · Form 20-F 2025
Place de la Coupole, La Défense, 2022 · Chabe01 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2020 A lease for The Link
With a building permit granted in April 2019, Groupama and Total signed the lease for The Link in March 2020. The Le Michelet building on the site was demolished, foundations began in 2021, and the structure rose at about one floor a week from 2023.
Source: Paris La Défense project page “The Link” (key project dates)
The Link building site, 2021 · Bretwa / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2026 The keys to The Link
In June 2026 TotalEnergies received the keys to The Link, now France's tallest tower, and began moving its teams in gradually. The tower is designed to halve the company's energy use compared with its current buildings.
Source: Paris La Défense news, June 17, 2026 · PCA-STREAM project page (completed 2026)
The Link at La Défense, August 2026 · Bretwa / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Since at least 1999 the headquarters has stayed inside Paris La Défense: from cours Michelet in Puteaux to Tour Coupole in Courbevoie, and now back to cours Michelet, less than a kilometre away, in The Link.
- 1 · 1999Tour Total, 24 cours Michelet, Puteaux — Total's principal offices at the time of the Petrofina deal
- 2 · 2000Tour Coupole, 2 place Jean Millier, Courbevoie — Headquarters from March 22, 2000; still the registered office in the 2025 Form 20-F
- 3 · 2026The Link, cours Michelet, Puteaux — New headquarters by PCA-STREAM; keys handed over in June 2026
Addresses: SEC filings (1999 Schedule 13D, 2000 Schedule 13D/A, Form 20-F 2025) · Paris La Défense and PCA-STREAM (The Link) · Locations: OpenStreetMap · distance calculated by eciffo
What TotalEnergies does
TotalEnergies began in 1924 as the Compagnie française des pétroles, created to secure oil for a country that had almost none. Today it is an integrated multi-energy company: oil and biofuels, natural gas, biogas and low-carbon hydrogen, renewables and electricity, active in about 120 countries.
Five business segments: Exploration & Production, Integrated LNG, Integrated Power, Refining & Chemicals, and Marketing & Services.
Where the money came from · Where the people work · share of employees by segment, 2025
Source: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025 (company workforce by business segment; Corporate 4.1% and OneTech 3.6% not shown)
Source: SEC XBRL financial data from TotalEnergies' Form 20-F 2025 · Universal Registration Document 2025 (payroll) · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$127.9B → $201.2B
102,168 → 101,513
Calendar years, IFRS, US$ billions (TotalEnergies reports in US dollars). Revenues from sales and employees at December 31: SEC XBRL financial data from TotalEnergies' Form 20-F filings; 2023–2025 employees also in URD 2025. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Joined in 1997; Chief Executive Officer since October 22, 2014, and Chairman and CEO since December 19, 2015.
Joined the Group in 1974; led Exploration & Production before becoming Chief Executive Officer on February 14, 2007.
Chairman and CEO from May 1995 to February 2007, then Chairman of the Board.
Founded in 1924 on the initiative of French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré; first chairman Ernest Mercier.
Source: TotalEnergies Universal Registration Document 2025 (§4, Pouyanné) · TOTAL S.A. Form 20-F 2007 (de Margerie, Desmarest) · totalenergies.com history
TotalEnergies: questions people ask
Where is TotalEnergies' headquarters?
In Paris La Défense. The registered office in the 2025 Form 20-F is Tour Coupole, 2 place Jean Millier, Courbevoie. In June 2026 TotalEnergies received the keys to its new headquarters, The Link, on cours Michelet in Puteaux, and began moving its teams in gradually.
Source: Form 20-F 2025 · Paris La Défense news, June 17, 2026
What is The Link?
TotalEnergies' new headquarters tower and France's tallest: two wings, 228 m and 165 m above the Parvis, joined by 30 planted walkways called “links”. It has 135,000 m² of space, 2,800 m² of terraces and gardens, and 6,000 m² duplex floors for up to 500 people.
Source: Paris La Défense · PCA-STREAM
Who designed TotalEnergies' new headquarters?
PCA-STREAM, the practice of architect Philippe Chiambaretta, with interiors by PCA-STREAM and BSTLL and landscape by Coloco. Groupama Immobilier owns the tower and VINCI Construction France built it.
Source: PCA-STREAM project page · Paris La Défense
How green is The Link?
It is certified HQE Exceptionnel and BREEAM Excellent. Its double-skin façade carries photovoltaic panels that supply a quarter of the energy for lighting, and the tower is designed to use about half the energy of TotalEnergies' current towers. There is no car park, but 350 m² of bicycle parking.
Source: Paris La Défense · PCA-STREAM · thelink-ladefense.com
How many people work at TotalEnergies?
101,513 employees at the end of 2025, in 350 employing companies across 93 countries, from close to 170 nationalities. 35,424 work in France.
Source: TotalEnergies URD 2025
What benefits does TotalEnergies offer?
Under Care Together, every employee worldwide gets at least 14 weeks of fully paid leave as a first parent and 2 weeks as a second parent, a death benefit of at least two years' salary, a health check-up every two years and at least a living wage. Employees can also buy shares at a 20% discount with matching free shares.
Source: TotalEnergies news release, March 21, 2024 · URD 2025
Does TotalEnergies allow remote work?
Yes, depending on the job and the team. In 2025, 68% of its companies offered regular remote work and 88% occasional remote work, and 89% had flexible hours. Every other Friday is a “Green Friday” without management meetings.
Source: TotalEnergies URD 2025 · careers.totalenergies.com
What is TotalEnergies' employee turnover rate?
14.2% for permanent contracts in 2025, including retirements, down from 14.6% in 2024.
Source: TotalEnergies URD 2025
Who is TotalEnergies' CEO?
Patrick Pouyanné, Chief Executive Officer since October 22, 2014, and Chairman and CEO since December 19, 2015. He joined the company in 1997.
Source: TotalEnergies URD 2025
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