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 private security and investigation group Seris has announced on 8 December 2015 to have recruited 800 employees since the terrorist attacks in Paris, on 13 November. The group has recruited 500 employees in France and 300 in Belgium. Seris is the second largest private security group in France and employs 8,500 people. It employs 12,000 people in the EU, mainly in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. Its annual turnover reached €350 million in 2014.
Eurofound (2015), Seris Security, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 85999, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85999.