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.
Hybler, a Czech textile producer, is to cut 116 jobs at its two facilities by the end of June 2010 due to increasing competition from Asian manufacturers. The restructuring will affect an overwhelming majority of the personnel. However, as of April 2010, there is no information on the precise number employed in the affected units.
Eurofound (2010), Hybler, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 70403, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70403.