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 Mutualité sociale agricole, which manages social security in the agricultural sector, has announced the recruitment of 120 employees within three years in its subsidiary in charge of IT services (iMSA). The Mutualité sociale agricole has nearly 6 million members and around 17,000 employees distributed among its 35 funds and its central fund. The benefits it pays out to farmers and their employees are provided with the support of iMSA, the IT department responsible for its information system and applications. This means that there are around 1,000 IT specialists working at six sites, starting with Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne), its head office, where almost half of the workforce, and the majority of the recruitment announced, is concentrated.
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