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.
BENTELER Automotive, a Germany-based car parts producer, opened its fifth production plant at the end of 2017 in the Czech Republic. BENTELER employs about 300 people in its new plant and plans to hire an additional 100 jobs by the end of 2018. Production is focused on hot forming of steel parts, blanking, welding and laser-cutting for key customers such as Volvo, BMW or ŠKODA auto.
BENTELER Automotive has been operating in the Czech Republic for more than 20 years, employing 2,200 people in the country.
Eurofound (2018), BENTELER Automotive, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 93976, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93976.