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.
Hyundai Mobis, a South Korean supplier of car parts, has launched trial production of headlights at its Mošnov plant and plans to create 120 new jobs by the end of 2017. Currently, the company employs 240 people there. Full operation will start in early April. The company wants to recruit assembly workers and machine setters, which are on shortage in the labour market. South Korean investment is to achieve roughly CZK 4 billion (EUR 148 million) with a total of more than 900 employees by 2023.
Eurofound (2017), Hyundai Mobis, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 90267, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90267.