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.
Zetor Tractors, a Czech producer of agricultural vehicles, has announced that it is to cut about 130 jobs out of 1,100 by the end of January 2009 due to production squeeze following a sharp decline of customer orders. The company has also negotiated with trade union a four-day working week.
Eurofound (2009), Zetor Tractors, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 67894, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67894.