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.
Hitachi Home Electronics Czech, Japan-based plasma TV screen producer, is to close its plant in Žatec (Triangle industrial zone) and to cut all 800 jobs by the end of March 2009. The company launched the production in the Czech Republic in July 2006. Up to 2,000 jobs were to be created there.
Eurofound (2009), Hitachi Home Electronics, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 68615, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68615.