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 manufacturer of lamps and lighting equipment, Thorn & Jakobsson are moving the whole of their production from Southern Jytland, Denmark, to Germany and France. This results from a decision of the Austrian owners. Most of the workers at the factory are unskilled women.
Eurofound (2004), Thorn & Jakobsson, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Denmark, factsheet number 60699, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60699.