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.
Tesco, the largest retail company in the Czech Republic, plans to create up to 900 new jobs with the opening of new supermarkets across the country in 2011. The company currently employs approximately 14,500 people in the Czech Republic. Tesco reported the creation of 970 new jobs in 2010 and an increase in wages of shop assistants by 3.5% last year.
Eurofound (2011), Tesco ČR, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 71679, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71679.