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.
Hisense Gorenje, the home appliance manufacturer (producer of refrigerators, kitchen stoves, washing, drying, dish-washing machines), announced the opening of the new TV factory in Velenje and the employment of 400 workers. The new factory, producing televisions for the European market, will start to work in January 2021.
The company will first offer job opportunities on the internal labour market within Hisense Europe and then to external job seekers. The training of 330 workers will begin on 15 December 2020, in January 2021 the total workforce will amount to 400 persons including professionals. In the first year, the output will attain the production of two million televisions per year. It will then increase to four million televisions per year until 2023.
In January 2020, 237 dismissals were announced.
Eurofound (2020), Hisense Gorenje, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 102082, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102082.