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.
Elica, an Italian multinational manufacturers of kitchen hoods, relocated the manufacturing of 20,000 units of Spot-NG hoods from Poland to its facility in Mergo, Italy in 2019. The decision was confirmed during a meeting with Confindustria Ancona in October 2018 aimed at reviewing the agreement signed in the fall of 2017. The company's management expressed its commitment to bring back production to Italy.
Eurofound (2019), Elica, Reshoring in Italy, factsheet number 255, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/255.