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.
In September 2012, the American company Emerson, manufacturer of electrical equipment, announced the intention to hire 100 new employees until the end of 2012 and another 900 people in 2013. That decision comes as result of substantial financial investments made by the company in Romania. At that moment the company has 1,400 employees in TetaromPark in Cluj, Romania.
UPDATE 5 March 2013: the company announced that has 1,600 employees and starting of April 2013 intend to hire other 500 persons, for Cluj and Oradea sites.
Eurofound (2012), Emerson Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 74188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74188.