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.
Korben, an IT consultancy services subsidiary of the textile retailer Beaumanoir, will recruit between 200 to 250 employees by 2017 for its new site in Saint-Malo. The group is building a new headquarters for its IT and logistics services that will employ about 500 employees to develop e-commerce solutions. They are currently hosted in a temporary building awaiting the construction of a new buidling. Korben will also recruit between 200 to 250 other employees for these activities. Beaumanoir employs 13,000 employees and has a total turnover of 1.3 billion euro.
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