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.
Hellenic Petroleum, one of the leading energy groups in South Eastern Europe, is recruiting 170 employees at its refineries in Elefsina and Aspropyrgos (Attiki). According to media sources, the Administrative Board of Hellenic Petroleum decided at a meeting held on Thursday, January 21st to proceed with 170 recruitments over the next three years. According to most recent announcements (January 27th) the profiles sought are those of maintenance technicians, field technicians as well as electricians and operators.
Hellenic Petroleum is owned by Paneuropean Oil and Industrial Holdings S.A. (42.6%) and the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (35.5%) with the remaining held by institutional (15,3%) and private investors (6,6%).
Eurofound (2016), Hellenic Petroleum, Business expansion in Greece, factsheet number 86335, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86335.