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.
Based in Meppel, Agrifirm is one of the country's largest cooperatives. Agrifirm mediates in the purchase and sale of milk quotas and fertiliser production rights, and stimulates the automation of the Dutch agricultural sector. The cooperative employs 1,400 people. Agrifirm will close the sites in Emmen en Koudekerk. Temporary contracts will not be renewed and direct dismissals are not excluded. A social plan has still to be negotiated.
Eurofound (2005), Agrifirm, Closure in Netherlands, factsheet number 62012, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62012.