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.
Czech government has approved the liquidation of state-owned engineering company MEZ Mohelnice resulting in 100 job losses. The difficult economic situation of the company has been aggravated by the global financial crisis. The unemployment rate in the region is around 15%.
Eurofound (2010), MEZ Mohelnice, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 70243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70243.