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.
Ikea, an international manufacturer and retailer of furnishing products, is to create 230 new jobs, with the opening of a new store in San Giovanni Teatino, in the province of Chieti. The new store will be opened by the end of June 2011. In Italy, Ikea has 6,300 employees and in 2011 it will have 20 stores.
Eurofound (2010), Ikea, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 71086, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71086.