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.
On 13 January 2015, manufacturer of casting products Tital announced to create 150 additional jobs at its site in Bestwig. The creation of these positions forms part of Tital's investment programme. Jobs are to be created within the next five years.
Tital is a manufacturer of complex and sophisticated investment casting products of titanium and aluminum alloys. At the end of 2014, the company was taken over by US aluminum producer Alcoa. Tital products are used in the electronics and optical, aerospace, medical and motorsport industry.
Eurofound (2015), Tital, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 78184, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78184.