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.
The Opel automobile plant in Gliwice is to cut 250 jobs (out of a workforce of 2,850) by late May 2009. In December 2008, the operations were slowed down from a three-shift system to two shifts in the face of falling orders and the resulting need to reduce output.
The redundandies in Opel factory in Gliwice will be enlarged; by the end of 2009 500 people will be dismissed.
Eurofound (2009), Opel, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 68474, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68474.