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 shipyard company Piriou has implemented a construction plant in Lorient (Morbihan) to increase its production. Piriou has orders to build about 10 ships from 40 to 70 metres length in the next three years. The number of employees in this new plant will increase from 50 to 150 by 2017.
Eurofound (2015), Piriou Naval Services, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 84261, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84261.