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 paper bag manufacturer Compagnie Européenne des Emballages Robert Schisler (CEE Schisler) is recruiting 100 employees in the coming months in order to manage a huge demand of paper bags following legislation that banned plastic bags in the retail sector, and which came into force on 1 July 2016 (and will extend to fruit and vegetables on 1 January 2017). CEE Schisler has increased its turnover by about 10% and announced that its current workforce of 400 employees will extend to at least 500 in the coming months. All new recruits will be offered permanent employment contracts.
Eurofound (2016), Compagnie Européenne des Emballages Robert Schisler, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 88715, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88715.