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.
The automotive supplier Turnkey Manufacturing Solutions (TMS), part of the Canadian Valiant Group, has hired 100 new employees in the current year.
TMS currently employs 450 people and operates at two sites in Linz, Upper Austria. The company manufactures body-in-white plant constructions, assembly and conveyor systems as well as cleaning technologies for the automotive industry. Currently, TMS is investing in the branch in Pichling, with the aim of concentrating production activities here. So far TMS has created 65 new jobs this year and an additional 35 new employees will be hired before the end of 2015.
Eurofound (2015), Turnkey Manufacturing Solutions, Business expansion in Austria, factsheet number 85422, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85422.