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.
ČD Cargo, a freight transport subsidiary of the České dráhy (the state-owned railway company of the Czech Republic) announced 1,200 job losses (i.e. 11% of the staff) that have been implemented from January to September 2009. The job cuts are a consequence of the the global economic crisis.
Eurofound (2009), ČD Cargo, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 69743, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69743.