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.
Minija, one of the oldest wood processing and furniture producing companies in Lithuania, announced its bankruptcy on 11 June, 2008. All 130 employees working in the company were dismissed. According to the administration, the main causes of the closure were raising wood prices and high competition in furniture production market. The company’s debt to creditors amounts to about 3 million LTL.
Eurofound (2008), Minija, Bankruptcy in Lithuania, factsheet number 66748, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66748.