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.
Stille is a Swedish company that produces surgical instruments and tables. In 2017, it decided close the site in California (USA), and relocate the production in Torshälla (Sweden). Reasons for reshoring have been: improve production efficiency, rationalize costs and increase sales. The company expected to conclude the operation in the first quarter of 2018.
Eurofound (2018), Stille, Reshoring in Sweden, factsheet number 67, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67.