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.
In the framework of the take over of the fast-food restaurant network Quick by Burger King, Burger King has started making changes to former Quick restaurants under the brand name Burger King. On each site, Burger King has taken over the current employees while simultaneously recruiting new employees. In Carcassonne (Aude), Burger King is recruiting 100 new employees for the restaurant that will be reopened on 22 November 2016. In Dieppe (Seine-Maritime), Burger King will recruit 43 new employees for the restaurant that will be reopened in December 2016. In Mondeville (Calvados), Burger King will recruit 70 employees for the restaurant that will be reopened by the end of the year. The employment contracts will be mainly part-time (24 hours / week) permanent employment contracts and several short-term contracts.
Update 3-10-2016: In the framework of the take over of the fast-food restaurant network Quick by Burger King, Burger King has started making changes to former Quick restaurants under the brand name Burger King. On each site, Burger King has taken over the current employees while simultaneously recruiting new employees. In La Valette-du-Var (Var), Burger King is recruiting 60 new employees for the restaurant that will be reopened by the end of the year. In Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), Burger King is recruiting 120 new employees on permanent employment contract for two restaurants that will be reopened in December 2016. It will also recruit 80 employees on short-term contract but without indication of length. For these three sites, about 180 employees will be recruited on permanent employment contract by the end of 2016. Otherwise, 150 job creations were already recorded in the ERM database in August 2015.
Eurofound (2016), Burger King, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 88738, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88738.