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.
Sfinx, based in České Budějovice, a traditional producer of enamelled stainless and steel crockery in the Czech Republic (founded in 1893), was closed and 130 workers lost their jobs. The main reason is a long-term loss-making production and the competition pressure from Southern Europe and Asia.
Eurofound (2005), Sfinx, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 62008, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62008.