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.
The Romanian subsidiary of the American process management solutions company, Emerson, created 110 jobs at its new plant in Gilau (Cluj County). The Romanian subsidiary will produce lighting glass (tubes and bulbs) and electrical apparatus for explosive gas atmospheres. In 2020, the company invested €4.5 million into production and IT equipment at the Cluj-Napoca plant and into its Bucharest office.
Emerson has been operating in Romania since 2006 and employs approximately 2,615 people in Cluj-Napoca, Oradea and Bucharest, most of which work at the Cluj-Napoca site.
Eurofound (2021), Emerson, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 103686, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103686.