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.
Low cost airline Easyjet has announced plans to recruit over 1,000 new staff following the opening of its new training centre based at Gatwick airport. The training centre itself has provided 40 jobs after a 2.7 million GBP investment. The company's chief executive confirmed that over the coming year 1,140 staff would be recruited with 830 cabin crew jobs and 310 pilots being sought. The jobs will be based across the UK, but it is understood that around 600 of the cabin crew jobs will operate from Gatwick. Recruitment for the new positions has already opened, though it is not known when the new jobs will start..
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