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 shipowner Armement Porcher has announced to recruit 100 positions at its site of Saint-Alban (Côte d'Armor) and to merge with the local agrofood company Le Graët (800 employees). Armement Porcher has 250 employees and reached a turnover of €7.6 million in 2017. Le Gräet reached a turnover of €200 million in 2017. The two companies decided to merge because of their complementarity and the willingness to keep both companies in the Britanny region.
Eurofound (2018), Armement Porcher, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 94784, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94784.