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.
Bekaert is to close one of its Belgian plants, located in Hemiksem, Antwerp. 264 workers are currently employed on the site manufacturing steel tubes for industries. Bekaert currently faces competition from manufacturers located in Asia and Eastern Europe and the closure of Hemiksem will allow the concentration of the steel tubes production in a single plant.
Eurofound (2008), Bekaert, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 67698, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67698.