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.
Bureau Veritas, a company providing testing, inspection, and certification, is recruiting 251 new employees. The company has announced a significant hiring initiative to boost its development and also is planning to reach the number of 1,300 new employees on permanent employment contracts this year.
The primary roles they seek to fill include engineers, technicians, diagnosticians, auditors, and project managers. Recruitment efforts are focused on several key regions: Hauts-de-France (81 positions), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (105 positions), and Auvergne-Rhônes-Alpes (65 positions).
The company is used to promote significant recruitment campaigns. In 2021, the company hired 300 new employees (Bureau Veritas 2021 - FR). The previous year, in 2020, Bureau Veritas recruited 1,400 new employees (Bureau Veritas 2020 - FR). Moreover, important recruitment efforts were made in 2019 (Bureau Veritas 2019 - FR).
Eurofound (2024), Bureau Veritas, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 201175, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201175.