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 Domfront cheese company, located in Domfront-en-Poiraie (Orne), has announced the recruitment of around 150 employees from December 2022. This site, part of Lactalis group, is the main manufacturing plant for Camembert cheese under the "Président" brand. It has a new industrial tool enabling it to gradually increase its cheese production. Lactalis has invested €70 million to modernise its production. On average, it is 25,000 t per year, i.e. 85 million units, most of which is Camembert, with milk collected from local producers within a 35 km radius of the site. The objective is to reach 40,000 t per year, with a ramp-up in 2023.
Eurofound (2022), Société fromagère de Domfront, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 108146, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108146.