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.
Progress AD, an iron casting enterprise based in Stara Zagora, is laying off 241 of its total staff of 400 employees. The company filed a notice to the labour office informing it about the redundancies planned for the period January-April 2009. The company is a manufacturer of gray and nodular iron castings, exporting some 70% to other European countries. Slavin Yanakiev, CEO of the company, had hoped to have to cut only 120 workers.
Eurofound (2008), Progress, Other in Bulgaria, factsheet number 68141, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68141.