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 Danish iron foundry, Vald. Birns Jernstøberi in Holstebro announced that 225 employees in the production department will be made redundant. The reason for restructuring is lack of orders. Vald. Birn is sub supplier to the car industry. According to collective agreement the management and the employees' representatives will discuss possibile ways to mitigate the redundancies.
Eurofound (2009), Vald Birns Jernstøberi, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 68626, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68626.