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 frozen food producer Findus will cut 70 out of 550 jobs at its plant in Bjuv. The company explained the workforce needed to be reduced as a result of the automation of the production processes. Negotiations with trade unions have already started. Findus, which has its headquarters in Malmö, currently employs 1100 people in Sweden.
Eurofound (2006), Findus, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 64156, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64156.