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.
Fabryka Maszyn Górniczych PIOMA, a producer of mining machines, is to dismiss 300 people (out of a total workforce of 520) at its factory in Piotrków Trybunalski by the end of March 2009. The company is one of the largest European producers of mining machines, including belt conveyors, suspended monorails floor railways, as well as devices and machines used, among others, in open-pit mining and maritime industries, output of mineral resources, crude oil and natural gas.
Eurofound (2009), Fabryka Maszyn Górniczych PIOMA, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 67805, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67805.