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.
Krka from Novo Mesto, the leading generic pharmaceutical company worldwide, announced that the company plans to hire 300 workers this year. As the head of the personnel department explained, it is a regular annual extension of its production. In the past, the company increased its workforce by about 300 workers every year. At the end of 2018, it employed 4,673 people in Slovenia (predominantly at the location in Novo Mesto). Globally, the company employs more than 12,000 people.
Eurofound (2019), Krka, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 96735, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96735.