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.
Danish drilling rig operator Maersk Drilling has announced that it will need to hire 1,300 employees in 2013. In the next five years the company expects to recruit around 3,000 employees until 2018. According to Maersk, there is a shortage of qualified people in this growing sector.
Eurofound (2013), Maersk Drilling, Business expansion in Denmark, factsheet number 75012, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75012.