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.
Caffaro, an Italian chemical company, is going into liquidation with the loss of 400 jobs. The affected workers are employed at the Torviscosa plant (260 workers) and the Brescia plant (140 workers).
Caffaro belongs to the Snia group, which is headquartered in Milan and has operating units in the European Union, the United States, Australia and Japan.
Eurofound (2009), Caffaro, Bankruptcy in Italy, factsheet number 68423, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68423.