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.
Jarlan, the producer of knitted goods, will dismiss its entire workforce. The factory went bankrupt, mainly because it couldn’t face competition from Asian companies.
Eurofound (2004), Jarlan, Bankruptcy in Poland, factsheet number 60940, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60940.