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.
Producer of garden furniture Stelmet wants to invest over €100 million in its new factory. It has just employed 30 people. By the end of 2005 Stelmet will hire 80 more people, and 100 in 2006. Finally, 1,500 people are expected to work there. The company is planning to hire wood technologists, wood processing machines operators, computer specialists, fork lift trucks operators and administration workers.
Eurofound (2005), Stelmet, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 61710, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61710.