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.
Focast, one of Valfond's subsidiary, manufacturer of parts for truck engines, has filed for bankruptcy in November 2003. Pebeco, a local SME, has been chosen to takeover the activities. It will keep 79 out of the 184 employees, and promised to hire 40 of the former employees on another of its sites within 3 years.
Eurofound (2004), Focast, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 59701, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59701.