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.
US-based IT software research and development company GlobalLogic expands its business into Slovakia. On 4 September it opened a new IT engineering centre for Central Europe in IT Valley Kosice, where applications for mobile phones will be developed. In the next two years, the Company plans to invest USD 2 million and would create at least 200 new jobs. Now, first 60 IT specialists have started to work there. According to Ivan Hruska, appointed manager responsible for the company´s business development in Central and Eastern Europe, the long-term plan of the company is to build here a centre with 500 software developers in the next five years.
Eurofound (2014), GlobalLogic, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 77586, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77586.