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.
A Maltese company Premier Capital that operates McDonald's restaurants in the Baltic States opened a new restaurant in Kaunas on 22 November 2017 and created 60 new jobs. Another 50 jobs will be created in Vilnius by the end of 2017.
Premier Capital currently operates 138 McDonald's restaurants in Malta, the Baltic States, Greece and Romania. The company plans to open 33 new restaurants in all of these countries investing about €90 million by 2020. Currently 13 restaurants employing 786 people are operating in Lithuania. Premier Capital has acquired the McDonald's restaurant chains in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia in 2007.
Eurofound (2017), Premier Capital, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 92600, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92600.