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.
Elkroj, a clothing manufacturer based in Nazarje, in the Savinjska region, is to make redundant 62 dress-makers. The company currently employs 250 employees, and is to lay off 62 female dressmakers. The reason for the lay offs is a 65% decrease in orders from Germany.
Eurofound (2009), Elkroj, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 68515, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68515.