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.
Michelin, Europe's biggest tyre maker, opened its new tyre factory in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. The factory will employ 217 workers to turn out 800,000 tyres a year. Local suppliers would provide 20% of the plant's orders. Michelin was set up in Nyíregyháza in 1996, with the purchase of Taurus, a maker of tractor tyres. In 2002, Michelin turned its Hungarian unit into a regional centre for Central and Eastern Europe. Michelin has plants in 75 countries. It controls 20.1% of the world's tyre market.
Eurofound (2005), Michelin Hungária Abroncsgyártó, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 62366, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62366.