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.
Prevent, manufacturer of car seat covers based in Slovenj Gradec, is to reduce the number of its employees by 300-400 workers. The reason is a reduction of orders of approximately 40% from the company's traditional customers due to a downturn in the car manufacturing industry. The company's ‘automobile division' currently employs 1,300 people.
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Eurofound (2009), Prevent Global, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 68265, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68265.