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 German-owned company Fränkische CZ is going to build a new manufacturing facility in industrial zone of Okříšky that belongs to the Třebíč district. This district has the highest unemployment rate in the Vysočina region. The production of the plant, focusing on automotive parts and parts for domestic appliances, is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2007 and to employ around 300 people. Presently, the company employs about 130 workers in the Czech Republic at its site in Jihlava.
Eurofound (2006), Fränkische CZ, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 63694, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63694.