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.
Danish windmill manufacturer Vestashas has just hired 200 new employees at the plant in Ringkøbing. The company had reduced its workforce by 2,000 employees in 2010. The management stated that the hiring of new staff is attributed to increased production of V112 windmills. Vestas has 21,700 employees worldwide and 6,500 in Denmark.
Eurofound (2011), Vestas, Business expansion in Denmark, factsheet number 72566, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72566.