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.
Electrolux, the world's largest producer of domestic appliances, is to cut 300 jobs at its site located at Forlì. In this plant the group employs 1,100 workers and produces ovens. Moreover, the company's plan envisages new investments in order to produce high-quality ovens at the Forlì plant. The trade unions have requested to meet the company's managers in order to find alternative solutions to the job-cuts.
Eurofound (2010), Electrolux, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 70463, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70463.