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.
The motor manufacturer Ford will recruit 192 new workers at its Belgian site in Genk from the end of March due to an increase in production. At the beginning of February, the daily production increased from 1,260 to 1,280 cars while an increase from 1,280 to 1,336 cars is foreseen for the end of March.
Eurofound (2008), Ford, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 66346, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66346.