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.
Germany-based KION Group, a worldwide leading producer of forklifts, warehouse equipment and other industrial trucks, is to create 200 new jobs following the opening a plant in Stříbro (Panattoni Park industrial zone) in mid-February 2016. The plant, which will focus on the production of forklifts, will need production workers, such as welders, agricultural machinery repairmen and auto mechanics.
According to Theodor Maurer, a member of the Board of Kion Group, the plant aims to maintain top position in Eastern and Southern Europe, where the group plans an "above-average growth."
Eurofound (2016), KION Group, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 86185, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86185.