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.
Furniture manufacturer Sakuona intends to create 270 new jobs in Klaipeda region in 2014. Sakuona has signed a contract with IKEA, according to which it will produce chairs for the furniture retailer.
The investments in the equipment will total LTL 17 million (EUR 5 million) and the production of chairs will start in 2014.
Eurofound (2014), Sakuona, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 76408, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76408.