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.
Nowy Styl of Krosno, which produces furniture and chairs, plans to reduce its workforce by 700 by the end of 2009. The company employs 3,400 people. The company is citing the economic crisis and its impact on the furniture industry, as the reason for the lay offs.
Eurofound (2009), Nowy Styl, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 68149, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68149.