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 number of employees in Durapart, in Panevezyshe, the company producing parts for motor vehicles, will be reduced in total by 170 by the end of May 2009. The company have already dismissed 72 employees since the beginning of the year 2009 and 98 additional employees people will be dismissed. The main cause for the dismissals is the decreased demand in production. All products of Durapart are exported to Sweden, Norway, Germany and Belgium.
Eurofound (2009), Durapart, Internal restructuring in Lithuania, factsheet number 68666, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68666.