unions had blamed restructuring and work pressure at the firm for the deaths in 2008 and 2009 at the company which employs 100,000 people . france telecom , which has since become orange , was hit by the wave of employee suicides beginning in 2008 . france telecom is one of the country 's biggest employers and also runs the major mobile provider orange . the goal is to fix all broken links on the web . the former head of france telecom premises at merignac , near bordeaux , in southwestern france . ' image : a number of employees took their own lives mr lombard , who denied any wrongdoing during an investigation of the suicides , stepped down as ceo of orange in early unions said that more than 35 had ended their own lives , according to french newspaper le monde . that way , as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web , a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved . then the internet archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken , or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page 's authors .