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.
After years-long agony Merinka Maribor, a textile company specializing in woolen articles, went bankrupt making the remaining 126 workers redundant. Numerous ownership and leadership changes during last years and reconstruction plans proved inefficient, culminating in work-strikes that paralysed the firm during summer 2005.
Eurofound (2005), Merinka, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 61967, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61967.