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.
Jablonex Group, a Czech jewellery producer, has announced 180 job losses with the closure of its plant in Železný Brod. Jablonex Group was set up in 2005 and employed a total 3,900 workers in the Czech Republic. Currently, the company employs about 1,500 people in five manufacturing sites.
Eurofound (2009), Jablonex Group, Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 69621, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69621.