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.
ArcelorMittal, a subsidiary of the world's largest steel company, has announced 550 job losses at its site in Ostrava between January and February 2009 due to the economic crisis. The company now employs 6,900 people at its Ostrava site and plans to cut a further 330 jobs by the end of March 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Arcelor Mittal, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 68414, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68414.