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.
Glunz & Jensen is a Danish company producing processors for printing industry; it owns facilities in Denmark, Italy, Slovakia and USA. In 2016, the company decided to near-shore in its Slovenian Prešov-Solivar plant the assembling activity earlier offshored and outsourced to China. By relocating production activities the company aims to increase its focus on profitability and effectiveness, and optimize the available production capacity.
Eurofound (2016), Glunz & Jensen, Reshoring in Slovakia, factsheet number 26, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/26.