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.
Volotea, the Spanish low-cost airline company has announced the plan to create 150 new jobs in 2017. In particular, out of the total 150 job positions, 50 will be opened at the headquarter in Barcelona, while 100 across the nine bases in Asturias, Bordeaux, Nantes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Venice, Verona, Palermo and Genoa. The job roles requested are pilots, cabin crew and handling positions. The firm recently celebrated its fifth anniversary and with the new recruitment plan will reach around 325 employees in Italy, 300 in France and 250 in Spain. In 2017, Volotea expects to transports 4.3 million of passengers.
Eurofound (2017), Volotea, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 91425, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91425.