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 O2 Group, a household and childcare agency, has announced plans to recruit 370 new employees in the region Nouvelle Aquitaine (the region resulting of the merger of the three region Midi-Pyrénees, Aquitaine and Limousin) by the end of 2017. The new employees will be hired under permanent contracts for babysitting and home services positions. O2 has 14 agencies within the region Nouvelle Aquitaine. The employees mostly work part-time, but the group tries to increase the working time of its employees by offering them a range of tasks. A previous creation of 110 positions was recorded in 2011.
Eurofound (2017), O2, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91049, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91049.