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 Holding, Czech traditional engineering company operating in power and transport industry, has announced that it is to create 700 new jobs at its plant in Plzeň in 2008. The company with 2,900 employees is facing a shortage of skilled workers in the Czech Republic and is in the process of recruiting foreign workers from Russia, Ukraine and Vietnam.
Eurofound (2008), Škoda Holding, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 66270, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66270.