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.
Gep Industrie, shoe manufacturer, employs 240 people. Despite a production site in Romania, the company is not profitable anymore. On 23 June 2004, it has announced through the works council the dismissal of 149 people.
Eurofound (2004), Gep Industrie, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 60435, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60435.