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.
Labod from Novo Mesto in the Jugovzhodna Slovenija region is a producer of men and women clothes, including shirts and underwear, which employs 190 workers. Due to reduced orders and sales, the company faces severe problems; the loss in 2008 amounted to EUR 0.6 million, while the accumulated loss is EUR 1.8 million. As a consequence, the management and the owners have launched a liquidation procedure. The result will be a liquidation of the existing and creation of two new companies. 70 to 100 employees will lose thier jobs.
Eurofound (2009), Labod, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 68680, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68680.