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.
Jitona, the largest Czech furniture manufacturer, has announced the closure of one of its manufacturing sites in Rousínov, with the loss of all the 247 jobs by the end of July 2007. The closure is due to the company’s difficulties with exporting their products because of the unfavourable strong CZK exchange rate. About 1,300 people are currently employed at Jitona’s four sites in the Czech Republic.
Eurofound (2008), Jitona, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 66556, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66556.