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.
Management of Vesna, a producer of batteries and accumulators, proposed in its restructuring plan to keep some of its production in Maribor at the cost of more than 100 jobs lost. Most of the redundant workers are found amongst the administration. Worst case scenario - moving the production to company's other unit in FYR Macedonia - is, however, not yet written-off.
Eurofound (2005), Vesna, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 62565, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62565.