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.
BauMax, an Austrian chain of retail stores for construction materials and household goods, has announced the opening of six new stores in 2009, resulting in the creation of approximately 660 new jobs (on average a domestic BauMax store hire 110 people). The investment is worth about EUR 60 million. The company has approximately 900 employees in Romania.
Eurofound (2008), BauMax, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 67133, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67133.