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 bentwood furniture producer Falcon Mimoň is undergoing bankruptcy proceeding and all 250 jobs are threatened. Economical difficulties started in 2005 when the American owner Falcon Products ceased taking delivery (up to 95% of a total production).
Products of the company were well-known by customers in Europe, Asia and North America.
Eurofound (2006), Falcon Mimoň a.s., Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 62900, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62900.