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.
Schenker, a multi-national firm that provides integrated logistical services, has announced that it created 148 new jobs in the Czech Republic between July 2006 and July 2007. Schenker engages in courier and other logistical service activities within the Czech Republic. The firm employed 475 in July 2006, and this number had risen to 623 by July 2007. In the same period, the firm reported that its sales revenues increased by one third and reached 1.3 billion CZK.
Eurofound (2007), Schenker, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 65743, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65743.