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.
Furniture manufacturer Swedwood Spartan has announced 120 redundancies, mainly of manual workers, starting in Feburary at its plant in Trnava. The company is part of Swedwood which is the industrial arm of Swedish giant IKEA. Timeline for the job cuts has not yet been announced.
Eurofound (2009), Swedwood Spartan, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 68215, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68215.