Ethics in the digital workplace
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The industrial baker Menissez has announced a record investment of €180 million over the next four years with the recruitment of 150 to 200 employees. This sum should enable it to increase its storage space, develop new production lines and modernise its R&D infrastructures. Menissez is a family business with 940 employees and the European leader in pre-baked bread. €80 million have already been invested, confirmed the group in the daily La Voix du Nord. The remainder is to be invested between now and 2024.
Eurofound (2021), Ménissez, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 103177, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103177.