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.
On May 2007, one of the largest and modern Ostrava-based meet processing plant was to cease the loss making production and to cancel 260 jobs from a total 780 (one third of the current workforce). The owner — Milkagro company- believed that a potential sale might avert imminent collapse. The main reason was the increasing meat import from abroad.
On 14 June 2007, the company declared bankruptcy and issued 213 redundancy notices.
Eurofound (2007), Masokombinát Martinov, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 65326, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65326.