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 Italian electronics manufacturer Carel based in Padua will open a manufacturing site in Labin, Croatia providing 100 new jobs. Carel produces electronic products and instruments that are used for installation of control systems for heating and cooling as well as for systems that control energy savings. The Labin plant covers a total area of around 90,000 m2, of which 7,000 m2 are indoors. The first production line will start by the end of 2015 and will employ around 100 workers.
Eurofound (2015), Carel Adriatic, Business expansion in Croatia, factsheet number 85555, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85555.