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.
Akzo Nobel will stop producing chlorine in Bohus. As a result of this decision, 150 workers will be dismissed. The reason put forward by the company for this plan is the loss of an important client, Norsk Hydro, which has decided to start producing chlorine in Norway.
Eurofound (2004), Akzo Nobel, Closure in Sweden, factsheet number 60536, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60536.