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.
Cutisin, a manufacturer of collagen and plastic casings for the food industry, has announced the closure of its Kořenov site which will result in 100 job cuts from a total 130 by the end of May 2009. The reason is high energy and manufacturing costs. Cutisin is a subsidiary of UK-based company Devro.
Eurofound (2008), Cutisin, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 67031, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67031.