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.
Powa Technologies, a UK- based start-up provider of e-commerce platform services is to create 250 jobs within the UK.
The company has raised £48.5 m from an unnamed US investor. The company’s founder Dan Wagner said that the funds were exchanged for a minority stake in the business.
Additionally, as announced, another 200 new jobs will be created elsewhere in the world. The timeline for the expansion plans is not yet available.
Eurofound (2013), Powa Technologies, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 75785, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75785.