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.
Integral Vrchovina, a Czech food company, has announced the closure of its poultry smoked meet plant in Žamberk with the loss of 154 jobs. It was reported that all 166 employees working at the plant were offered to work at the mother plant in Skořenice, but only 12 workers accepted the offer.
Eurofound (2008), Integral Vrchovina, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 67531, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67531.