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 international group Pauwels Trafo decided to close its manufacturing unit located in the harbour of Gent, dissmissing 115 people. The 47 remaining workers would be transferred to the seat of Mechelen but trade unions have fears about thirty additional dismissals that could be decided soon on this other site.
Eurofound (2003), Pauwels Trafo, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 59763, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59763.