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.
On 4th January, the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota announced its intention to recruit 100 employees on permanent contract from spring 2011 to spring 2012. It will also recruit 300 temporary workers. The total workforce has currently 3,182 employees (2,989 permanent contracts and 193 on temporary contracts).
Eurofound (2011), Toyota, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 71480, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71480.