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.
US farm equipment manufacturer Kinze Manufacturing is opening a plant in Trakai (Vilnius region, Lithuania), where around 250 people will be employed by 2017. According to management, the company’s products will be exported to Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine. The newly opened plant is its first production plant abroad.
Eurofound (2013), Kinze Manufacturing, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 75615, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75615.