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 engineering group Finnveden will move the production of labour-intensive products from its unit in Hallstahammar (Sweden) to its plant in Poland. Some 125 out of 260 employees have been served with notice of termination of employment. Both production personnel and administrative staff at the production unit in Hallstahammar will be affected by the plan, which has been decided as result of the downward pressure on prices and the stiffening competition on the automotive industry.
Eurofound (2005), Finnveden, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 62180, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62180.