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.
ŠKODA JS, a firm that supplies engineering for the nuclear energy industry, is to create 200 new jobs in Plzeň. ŠKODA JS currently employs 800 at its Plzeň site. The creation of the new jobs follows the firm winning a 4.5 billion CZK order for the refurbishment of the control system at the Dukovany nuclear power plant. The 200 new jobs will require highly skilled workers. As of September 2007, there is no information on when the new jobs will be created by.
Eurofound (2007), ŠKODA JS, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 65840, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65840.