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 steel manufacturer Mechel Targoviste, local subsidiary of the Russian group Mechel, announced the intention to dismiss 249 employees, in July and August 2009.The measure is due to reduced market demand. The company has 3,128 employees and reported a turnover of 26 million euro and losses of 7.4 million euro in the first quarter of 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Mechel Targoviste, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 69326, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69326.