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.
Electroprecizia Săcele, a manufacturer of electric motors and generators announced its intention to dismiss 400 employees as part of a restructuring plan which will be initiated in the first quarter of 2009. At present the company has approximately 1,200 employees. In the first quarter of 2009, the company reported a turnover of 4.9 million euro (40% less than the level registered in the same period in 2008) and a financial loss of 0.2 million euro.
Eurofound (2009), Electroprecizia Săcele, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 68994, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68994.