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 international high-technology group Safran, specialised in aerospace, defense and security, announced its intention to recruit 5,500 employees worldwide (including 2,000 in France) by 2016. Safran will recruit 900 engineers and qualified workers and technicians to keep up with its production increase of civil aircraft motors.
According to Jean-Luc Bérard, the HR Director of Safran, the group has recruited 7700 employees worldwide in 2015 for a net job creation of 1,000 taking into account natural departures and departures to retirement. In 2013, the ERM has reported 6,000 job creations worldwide.
Safran employs 70,000 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2016), Safran, Business expansion in World, factsheet number 86599, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86599.