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.
Prevent, manufacturer of car seat covers based in the Koroška region is to cut 400 jobs in Slovenj Gradec and Radlje ob Dravi (in Koroška region) by September 2010. The cuts come on top of another 169 jobs the company has had to shed in 2009 (see related fact sheet 14062). The redundancies are attributed to the decline in customer orders resulting from the economic downturn affecting the car manufacturing industry.
Eurofound (2010), Prevent Global, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 70085, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70085.