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.
Slovenian family company Plastika Skaza, located in Velenje (Savinjska region), is going to hire 30 new workers in 2017 as a result of an increase in production due to new orders from electrics and automotive industry. Plastika Skaza is a manufacturer of various plastic products for furniture, electrics, automotive industry and household equipment. The company, which currently employs 307 workers, will mainly hire specialists in information technology because it plans to make the factory more digital.
Eurofound (2017), Plastika Skaza, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 90629, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90629.