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.
K-Line, a subsidiary of the Liebot group, the French leader in industrial carpentry, has announced the recruitment of 100 employees in its new site of Saint-Vulbas (Ain) with the aim to recruit about 300 employees. The company, which has invested €,62 million for its new unit of 48,500 square metres, expects to produce 2,500 windows at first, then 5,000 fairly quickly. Moreover, in order to produce sliding windows and sliding aluminum doors in this new plant, scheduled to be opened by the end of 2017, the group has started to recruit about 100 employees for the opening, but it expects to create a total of 300 positions by 2020. The group Liébot employs 1,900 people in France and K-Line has 1025employees.
Eurofound (2017), K-Line, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91021, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91021.