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.
Japan-based SMC Corporation, the world largest manufacturer of pneumatic automation products, is going to set up a new manufacturing centre for Central Europe in industrial zone of the Vyškov city. Within 3 years, this project is to create 200 jobs for technicians and a further 200 people are to be employed in manufacturing unit aimed for automotive industry.
Eurofound (2007), SMC Corporation, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 65415, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65415.