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.
Estonian Air will close down the ground service unit and dismiss about 120 workers from the 1st of May 2009 to increase profitability. A specialized company will start rendering the service. Estonian Air will focus on their main activities to increase its competitiveness to cope with the situation of a decreased number of passengers. In later spring 2009, the company plans to buy three new airplanes to offer a more flexible air schedule, to develop existing markets and to open new routes.
Eurofound (2009), Estonian Air, Internal restructuring in Estonia, factsheet number 68481, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68481.