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.
Webhelp, a call centre company located in Caen, in the north of Paris, announced on 17 October 2006 that it will recruit 250 new employees between November 2006 and June 2007. Created in November 2005, the Webhelp Caen has experienced strong growth in its activity of data processing. The director of Webhelp Caen announced that the company will recruit young people without formal degrees and qualifications and will provide them with training. The group Webhelp, with 2,700 employees in the world, is also established in Morocco and in Romania. The number of employees in Caen is 538.
Eurofound (2006), Webhelp, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64273, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64273.