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 airbag producer Autoliv will cut 80 out of 450 jobs in Motala (30 administrative workers and 50 manual workers). Autoliv, which expanded both in terms of personal and sales figure over the last few years, explained it was facing hard price competition and needed to improve its effectiveness.
Eurofound (2005), Autoliv, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 61527, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61527.