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.
Uztel Ploiesti, a Romanian manufacturer of machinery for petroleum extraction, announced the dismissal of 466 employees beginning on 1 November 2009. The turnover of the company decreased in the first quarter of 2009, and the company earned half the profit as it did in the same period in 2008.
Eurofound (2009), Uztel Ploiesti, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 69457, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69457.