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.
AT&S, Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG, an austrian producer of electronics and microelectronics, will create 700 new jobs until 2025 at its production site in Leoben in Styria. The company will invest € 500 millions to build a new site for production, research and developtment. While 30 qualified employees have been hired already, 70 to 80 engineers are still needed for the Leoben plant. In the following years, AT&S will hire another 100 employees with a technical education and 300 to 350 production workers.
In 2020, AT&S had 10,239 employees and a turnover of € 1,001 millions.
Eurofound (2022), AT&S, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 106672, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106672.