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.
Producer of car components Maflow, a subsidiary of Polish chemicals group Boryszew, has announced that it will create 350 jobs at its new factory of air conditioning tubes for the automotive industry in Toruń (Pomeraniam Special Economic Zone, Poland). In total, the company plans to create 1,200 jobs at the site. The company is looking for production staff, production planning specialists, quality specialists, production and quality engineers, electromechanical technicians, automation technicians as well as sale specialists. The company provides special half-year training for hired workers at the Maflow’s factory in Tychy.
Boryszew group produces chemicals as well as components for automotive industry. The Rayon Factory was established by the Belgian Society in 1911 in Sochaczew, Poland. After the 2nd World War the factory was nationalised. The company Boryszew was established in 1991 as a result of privatisation.
Eurofound (2017), Maflow, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 90333, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90333.