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.
Due to a downturn in orders, garment company Svik in Svidnik will dismiss 170 employees, mainly female dressmakers. Initially, the company management was considering cutting 270 jobs but this number has now been reduced. Employment effect start and timeline were not yet specified.
Eurofound (2009), Svik, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 68101, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68101.