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.
Karavela Properties, owner of Porkert factory producing kitchen cast-iron grinders, went bankrupt and all 110 workers lost their jobs. Since 1881, the factory has been manufacturing houseware products and its products have been exported to 90 countries. In 1990s' the plant employed some 430 people.
Eurofound (2010), Karavela Properties, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 70140, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70140.