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.
Lecom, a Czech machinery company, has announced the closure of its plant in Ledeč nad Sázavou with the loss of all 110 jobs by the end of January 2009. The firm has taken a leading position in the Czech Republic among the suppliers of technological units in the field of galvanic surface pre-treatment, electrophoretic application of paints, disposal of effluents etc.
Eurofound (2009), Lecom, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 68073, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68073.