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 chemical company Borealis is about to close its unit located in Flanders in Beringen. The closure of the unit will concern 109 jobs. The company is facing problems of overproduction and is in financial difficulties since the decrease of the prices. The number of job losses was increased to 123 at the second notification of redundancies in October 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Borealis, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 69495, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69495.