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 consultancy firm Semcon has given notice to 300 of its employees in Sweden, with the Trollhättan and Göteborg sites incurring most of the job losses. This is due to a lack of demand among its customers, which are mainly from the automobile industry. The company designs and develops products mainly for the automobile industry.
Eurofound (2009), Semcon, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 69147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69147.