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 ‘Strategy for Privatisation of the Hard Coal Mining Sector’ drawn up by the Polish government provides for the merger of the Bogdanka mine with the power generation facility in Kozienice and for the sale of the entity thus created. The unions active at the mine have expressed worries that this will lead to reduced coal extraction and to the downsizing of the workforce by 1,000 jobs.
Eurofound (2004), Bogdanka, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 60726, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60726.