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.
Auto component manufacturer Faurecia is to create over 100 jobs at its factory in Budesti, southern Romania. The company has 16 positions available for distribution operators, 87 for unskilled production workers, and 5 team leadership positions.
The Budesti plant produces car upholstery for car manufacturing companies. Inaugurated in May 2016, the plant currently employs 1,200 workers.
Eurofound (2016), Faurecia, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 88344, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88344.