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.
More than 200 workers lost their jobs after a definitive closure of the machinery company Škoda Klatovy that went bankrupt at the end of 2002. Because the take-over by a new owner (Golondrina) since September 2005 was not successful, dismissed workers claim three wage loss compensation at local labour offices.
Eurofound (2006), Škoda Klatovy s.r.o., Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 62785, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62785.