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.
Arcelor Mittal Ostrava, a subsidiary of the world's largest steel company, is to lay off a further 300 workers out of approximately 6,000 staff within a couple of weeks. As it has been reported earlier the company already cut about 1,000 jobs since the beginning of 2009 (see fact sheet No 13080).
Eurofound (2009), Arcelor Mittal, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 69301, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69301.