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 American tractor manufacturer AGCO Massey Ferguson announced plans to recruit 100 employees at its site in Beauvais (Oise) in the next six months. The site currently employs 2,500 employees. The company has opened a new logistic sites to provide for its construction site of Beauvais. Since 2009, AGCO has invest about €300 million in Beauvais since it decided to make this its global centre of excellence for the design and manufacture of Massey Ferguson tractors. The site builds each year around 20,000 tractors. A previous recruitment of 100 employees was recorded in 2013.
Eurofound (2017), AGCO France, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91492, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91492.