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.
French high-tech group, Thales, has announced a large recruitment of around 11,000 employees woldwide. Thales is a key player in aerospace, defence and security, and digital identity and security. 4,000 people will be recruited in France (Thales2022 - FR); other hires will be in the U.K. (650), Germany (about 430), Romania (500), the Netherlands (260), as well as in Asia (630), in Australia (300), in India (600), in the Middle East and Africa (240), and in North (700) and South America (160). New employees will be on permanent contracts, but the group will also recruit young people on internship or apprenticeship contracts. Thales is looking for software engineers, systems engineers, experts in digital technologies- including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and big data- and project managers.
The group has 81,000 employees in 68 countries.
A former announcement of recruitment worldwide was recorded in the ERM database in 2018, with 5,000 jobs created (Thales-2018-WO).
Eurofound (2022), Thales, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 107087, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107087.