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.
Imperial Tobacco Slovakia, a manufacturer of tobacco and a subsidiary of the British Imperial Tobacco Group, has announced that it is to cut 100 jobs at its Smolnik site by the end of December 2007. 160 are currently employed at the Smolnik plant. Management at the subsidiary firm have stated that the job losses are due to the loss of a contract with Lidl, the multi-national discount retail group.
Eurofound (2007), Imperial Tobacco, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 66053, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66053.