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.
Vard, a shipyard company, will hire 300 persons from Vietnam to work as welders and toolmakers at the company's site in Tulcea, Romania. The decision to hire Vietnamese workers is attributed to a shortage of specialised workers in Romania.
As of June 2017, Vard employed approximately 3,000 people at its shipyard in Tulcea and an estimated 9,000 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2017), Vard, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 91380, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91380.