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.
Madeta, the largest Czech diary products manufacturer, has announced about 100 job cuts out of 2,100 staff due to the milk price drop and the global financial crisis. The company's restructuring envisages the closure of two diary plants (one in the city of Strakoniceand the second is not published yet). As of December 2008, there is no information on when job cuts are to be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Madeta, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 67743, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67743.