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.
Bilfinger Mars Offshore will create 397 new workplaces at the offshore wind turbines foundations plant in Szczecin (part of the Euro-Park Mielec Special Economic Zone). The company will recruit staff for production lines and administration departments.
The investment will result in total of 497 new positions (100 have already been created in 2014). The factory, which is to be completed in mid 2015, has received PLN 123 mn (EUR 29.73 mn USD 31.50 mn) of financial subvention from the EU funds to co-finance the investment. The total investment is worth PLN 510 mn (EUR 127.5 mn USD 134.92 mn). The investment is carried out by the Bilfinger Mars Offshore shared by Bilfinger (62.5 %) and Mars FIZ (37.5 %), which is now in possesion of Polish Armaments Group.
Eurofound (2015), Bilfinger Mars Offshore, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 79218, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/79218.