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.
Czech linen textile producer Opavlen Opava announced the need to reduce the workforce due to the inflow of cheap textile products from China. Management stated that only some 20 out of the 147 currently employed are to remain in the factory.
Eurofound (2006), Opavlen Opava, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 63126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63126.