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.
Strenia is a company engaged in designing, manufacturing and servicing machines for stone processing such as crushers, mills, screens and belt conveyors. Company, located in Ljubljana in the Osrednjeslovenska region and owned by S.T. Hammer, will be liquidated because of the 80% decrease in orders. All 125 employees will lose their jobs. They will receive EUR 1 million of compensation for dismissal. The liquidation process will end in four months.
Eurofound (2009), Strenia, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 68846, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68846.