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.
Clariant, a Swiss chemicals and biotech company, has opened a new biotechnology research centre (CBC) in Munich, which will create 100 jobs. New employees will research the development of bio-based products and –process at the fein chemicals and biofuel division in new biotech centre (CBC). According to Clariant’s CEO, this new biotech centre will be a global research centre as well as its first research centre in Frankfurt (CIC, Clariant innovation centre).
Clariant is a Swiss chemicals and biotech company which was formed in 1995 as a spin-off from Sandoz. The company is headquartered in Muttenz, Swiss, and has 18,000 employees worldwide. Currently, it runs German sites in Ahrensburg, Bitterfeld, Duisburg, Gammelsdorf, Gendorf, Gersthofen, Heufeld, Höchst, Knapsack, Lahnstein, Moosburg, Munich, Oberhausen and Sulzbach.
Eurofound (2015), Clariant, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 85147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85147.