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 producer of trucks Volvo Truck has started to dismiss about 100 people (out of a total workforce of 250) from its factory in Długołęka by Wrocław. The redundancies will last until the end of 2009. The rest of the workers have agreed to work 12 hours per day and, in the case of a fall in orders, to have free days from work.
Eurofound (2009), Volvo Trucks, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 69126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69126.