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.
Picanol, a manufactuer of looms, is about to cut 155 jobs at its plant in Leper, Flanders. The company faces a decrease in demand and intends to reduce its production costs. Because of the crisis in the textile sector, the company does not expect to have better results in 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Picanol, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 67915, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67915.