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.
Swedwood, a subsidiary of IKEA, is planning to cut 130 jobs at its factory in Skoczów by the end of April 2009. Swedwood produces and distributes finished wooden furniture and components for sale in the IKEA retail chain. It has nine more Polish factories - in Chlastawa, Zbąszyń, Lubawa, Babimost, Goleniów, Stepnica, Konstantynów Łódzki, Resko, and Wielbark.
Eurofound (2009), Swedwood, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 68580, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68580.