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.
Adixen Vaccum Products, a producer of vacuum solutions, is hiring 110 people until 2013 for its project "Lab Fab". In this context Adixen has already hired 50 people.
The company's new solar photovoltaic project, called "Lab Fab", requires an investment of 35 million euros. On 13 October 2011, the Rhône-Alpes region decided to support the project with 2,3 million Euros to enable a production of solar cells which is supposed to be competitive with Chinese competitors.
Eurofound (2011), Adixen Vacuum Products, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 72608, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72608.