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.
Amurco Bacau, a producer of chemical fertilisers, has announced the dismissal of 650 workers to take effect from April 2009. There is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by. The job losses are attributed to the decision to close the company. Only 200 workers will remain at the company for the maintenance of the equipment.
Eurofound (2009), Amurco Bacău, Closure in Romania, factsheet number 68810, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68810.