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 oil heaters producer Kaz Ibérica announced its closure. The measure will affect 200 workers who will be dismissed in the next 4 months. Unions consider it another case of delocalisation to countries where the work force is cheaper (Kaz Ibérica already has a plant in China).
Eurofound (2005), Kaz Ibérica, Closure in Portugal, factsheet number 61031, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61031.