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.
Stockholm Municipality is to hire between 300 and 1500 new employees next year in order to meet the needs of the arriving refugees. At least 300 new employees will be hired to handle temporary housing, primarily for children who have arrived in Sweden unaccompanied. Beyond the need for social workers the city is planning to recruit a large amount of teachers and further training will be provided for the current staff. Between the 20 August and the 20 October, 902 refugees entered the Swedish primary school system.
In response to the refugee crisis both Gothenburg Muncipality and Malmö Municipality have hired a large number of new employees as well.
Eurofound (2015), Stockholm Municipality, Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 85756, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85756.