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.
On 23 August 2005, the food producer HK Ruokatalo, started cooperation negotiations with its employees in order to cut jobs.
The company is renewing its pork slaughtering line, implementing a quick carcass refrigeration plant and improving other facilities With greater efficiency, the new line will require fewer people than the former one. The company expects around 68 jobs to be lost.
Eurofound (2005), HK Ruokatalo, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 62138, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62138.