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.
SME, a manufacturer of parts of structures based in Sablé in western France, has gone bankrupt and, on 8 July 2009, dismissed 280 employees.
The SME family had lost several large contracts. In June, the employees were on strike.
Eurofound (2009), Metalform, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 69253, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69253.