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.
Esaote is an Italian company founded in 1982 that produces biomedical equipment. The company's sales have fallen due to the economic crisis. As part of a larger restructuring within the firm, the assembly of all equipment produced by Esaote will now be concentrated at its Florence site in Italy, including parts that were previously assembled in the Netherlands. The exact impact on job gains and losses at each respective site is unknown.
Eurofound (2015), Esaote, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 195, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/195.