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.
Huawei Technologies is a Chinese company producing cell phone and broadband systems. Its Swedish affiliate has existed since 2001 and is now a major competitor to the Swedish main actor on this market, Ericsson. Huawei Sweden is now planning to double its labor force from 120 to 240 employees before the end of the year. The increase in personnel will mainly affect the R&D-department of the company. According to the R&D president Urban Fagerstedt, this is due to “the Swedish department being a successful part of the international company and therefore allowed to expand”.
Eurofound (2008), Huawei Technologies Ltd., Business expansion in Sweden, factsheet number 66473, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66473.