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 closing of Unilever production in its plant in Záhřeb, announced 30 November 2004, will result in 250 job losses from the current stuff of 280 people gradually by December 2005 to January 2006. The production of mayonnaise, tartar sauce and dehydrated food will be relocated to the plant in Nelahozeves and other European manufacturing centres.
Eurofound (2004), Unilever, Relocation in Czechia, factsheet number 61227, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61227.