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.
PKP Cargo, Europe’s second-largest rail freight carrier, is to cut 9,000 jobs out of 44,000 by the end of 2009 in the 16 plants located across Poland. The total tonnage moved by PKP Cargo has fallen from 145 million tonnes in 2007 to 122 million tonnes in 2008; the company’s single largest customer is ArcelorMittal, which has been trimming back production at its Polish plants.
Eurofound (2009), PKP Cargo,, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 67849, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67849.