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.
AQ Okna, the third largest windows producer, has been declared bankrupt and all 400 workers have lost their jobs. Financial difficulties resulting in debt of CZK 145 million begun in November 2008. Since that time, employees were successively quitting the three Czech sites (Choceň, Skoupý and Jičín). Most of workers have not yet received their wages.
Eurofound (2009), AQ Okna, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 69401, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69401.