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.
Some 150 employees of the Norwegian ferry company Kystlink received their dismissal notices on 30th of September. Kystlink runs ferry lines between Langesund, Hirtshals (Denmark) and Strømstad (Sweden).
According to the managing director the company has lost money on these routes for years. The Board guarantees the operations and wages through October, but if not new investors turn up by 1st of November, the operations will be stopped.
Eurofound (2008), Kystlink AS, Internal restructuring in Norway, factsheet number 67177, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67177.