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.
Appart'City, a French firm specialised in renting apartments, has announced the recruitment of 150 employees. The company is specialised in the urban apartment-hotel formula in France and has launched a major recruitment campaign to strengthen its workforce. Appart'City trains new recruits 'to enable them to offer an optimal quality of welcome to their customers', according to the management. Furthermore, to cope with labour shortage in this sector, the company announced it will offer an initial €500 bonus to each new recruit.
Eurofound (2021), Appart'City, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 105551, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105551.