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.
Multinational fast-food chain McDonald's has announced to recruit a total of 100 new employees for its restaurants in the Stockholm region. A recruitment day with over 1000 participants was held on February 18th in Stockholm.
This business expansion is reported to be a result of the tax reform in Sweden which has lowered the value added tax on restaurant food.
Eurofound (2012), McDonald's, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 73103, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73103.