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 CEO of the French subsidiary of the Internet group Google has announced the recruitment of 300 new employees, mainly engineers, by the end of 2017. The company will increase its workforce from 700 to 1,000 employees and double the size of its office in Paris. Two recruitment announcement were recorded in 2012 (150 job creations) and 2011 (150 job creations). The CEO explains that numerous French companies have now a digitalisation strategy, which represent an opportunity to market increase for Google.
Eurofound (2017), Google France, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 92253, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92253.