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.
Slovak Hydina ZK, a poultry factory in Kosice, has gone bankrupt and about 350 employees will be dismissed during the next months. According to the management, the company was not able to accept the prices offered by the multinational commercial chains, which were its main customers.
Eurofound (2009), Hydina ZK, Bankruptcy in Slovakia, factsheet number 69546, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69546.