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.
McDonald's, the fast-food restaurant chain, is to create 850 new jobs in Italy in the period 2010-2011. The company envisages to open 80 new restaurants by the end of 2012. In Italy McDonald's has around 13,500 employees.
Eurofound (2010), McDonald's, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 70770, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70770.