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 telecommunications group France Télécom announced its intention to recruit 4,000 employees by 2015, but as 9,000 will leave the company to retire in the same time period, the net employment effect will be a loss of 5,000 positions.
The unions have criticized this implied decrease of the workforce.
It is reported that France Télécom will also recruit 5,000 young workers each year on apprenticeships employment contracts.
Eurofound (2012), France Télécom, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74245, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74245.