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.
US(New Jersey)-based company Ingersoll Rand, a leading diversified industrial company providing products, services and integrated solutions to industries ranging from transportation and manufacturing to food retailing, construction and agriculture, is to build its second manufacturing facility in Dobříš. The investment amounting to CZK 700 million will create up to 300 new jobs over the next years. The company has been operating here since 2001. Its main products are loaders and excavators of the Bobcat brand. The training centre of the Bobcat brand is also planned to be shifted from Belgium to Dobříš and to provide services to customers from Europe, Far East and Africa.
Eurofound (2006), Ingersoll Rand (IR), Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 64394, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64394.