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 US fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has announced the creation of 100 new restaurants and 1,500 jobs in France in 2010. 1,000 will be full-time jobs, of which 200 will be unit managers and assistant managers. As of 2009, the chain employed 4,500 people in 100 restaurants.
Eurofound (2009), Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), Business expansion in France, factsheet number 69718, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69718.