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.
Thermo King, one of the worlds largest producers of cooling equipment for ship containers, moves the production from Denmark to China, where 90% of the world's ship containers are built. Only 15 employees are left in the development department in the former headquarters of the company in Langeskov, Fyn, Denmark.
Eurofound (2004), Thermo King, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 60697, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60697.