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.
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Bridgestone Corporation, one of the biggest tyre and rubber manufacturers in the world, has announced that it is to create 200 new jobs by opening its first fully-automated production facility in Europe in an attempt to meet growing demand for high-performance, large rim-sized car tyres. The new plant is located in Tatabánya, about 50 km to the West from Budapest. Production of high-performance and large-rim sized radial tyres for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles is scheduled to reach 8,000 units a day in 2009. The value of the investment is €190 million.
Eurofound (2008), Bridgestone, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 66483, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66483.