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.
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Clothing manufacturer Francesca Industries is to create 450 new jobs for textile workers. Among the company's major clients are Swedish furniture manufacturer IKEA and fashion retailers H&M and Zara. The company was founded in 1992 in Pitesti, Southern Romania. It has a total workforce of 1,500 employees and a production capacity of some 4.8mn products per year.
Eurofound (2016), Francesca Industries, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 87786, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87786.