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.
As part of the programme to recruit 6,000 employees worldwide in the first half of 2022 announced on 19 January 2022 (Airbus-2022-WO), Airbus has confirmed the recruitment of 1,500 new employees in France, including 800 around Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). The aim is to support the increase in production rate after the COVID-19 crisis. New positions will be in all the activities of the group: commercial aircraft, defence and space, helicopters. There will also be 1,500 temporary workers and 1,500 trainees and work-study contracts- both without specifying a minimum duration. Airbus will review its hiring needs by the first half of the year.
Previous announcements of job reductions within the group Airbus in France were recorded on the ERM Database: 470 job cuts in 2018; 546 job cuts in 2017 and 582 job cuts in 2016.
Eurofound (2022), Airbus, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 106566, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106566.