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.
Madeta a.s., the largest distributor of dairy products in Czech Republic, continues with cutting staff due to a decreasing delivery of milk from Czech farmers, who have recently started to export a part of their milk production to Germany under higher prices. Madeta management intends to dismiss about 300 – 350 employees.
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