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.
The Austrian construction company Porr Construct has announced that 150 new job vacancies will be created by the end of 2019. The company has managed to increase its turnover by 35% in 2018 to RON 513.8 million (€108.79 million), reaching a profit of RON 40 million (€8.47 million), while the previous year the company reported losses of RON 34.2 miullion (€7.24 million). Porr is looking for engineers, managers and construction workers. In Romania, the company has infrastructure and building construction projects.
In Romania, the company was established in 2004 and has a workforce of 296.
Eurofound (2019), Porr Construct Romania, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 97962, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97962.