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.
GE Energy Services CEE, the regional subsidiary of General Electric (GE), is to hire 200 new people at its plants in Ploiesti and Bucharest in 2016. The new employees will be engineers and specialists in software, system services or design. According to the company CEO Cristian Colteanu, the need for engineers is driven by GE becoming a digital industrial company.
An official of GE Energy Services CEE mentioned that they will be in the majority, engineers and specialists in the area of software, system services or design areas.
Following the recent merger with Alstom, the total workforce in Romania increased to 900. The company owns an oil well factory near Ploiesti and a plant of components for aircraft engines in Bucharest called Unison Engine Components.
Eurofound (2016), GE Energy Services CEE, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 86949, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86949.