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.
Note, a service provider for the electronics sector, has given notice to 60 employees at its unit in Torsby, Sweden. The total number of employees before the redundancies was approximately 460. According to the press release most lay-offs will occur in the first six months of 2009.
Note is a service provider in production and logistics relating to electronics-based products. Note has a locations in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the UK, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland and China.
Eurofound (2009), Note, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 69141, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69141.