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.
Jabil, the American producer of electronic components for TV sets and assembler of finished goods, has announced that it will create 600 new jobs at its production facility in Kwidzyń (Pomeranian Special Economic Zone, Poland) by the end of 2017. The restructuring programme is associated with a new contract signed with a client from the US. Jabil is looking for about 100 technical specialists and 500 production staff. The source also reported the company have hired about 400 employees (100 engineers and technicians and 300 production workers) this year.
Jabil has been operating in Poland since 2005; the factory in Kwidzyń currently employs 3,100 people and it specialises in the production of photovoltaic modules, industrial video cameras and electronic components.
Eurofound (2017), Jabil, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 91234, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91234.