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.
Veba Broumov, one of the largest and the most profitable textile companies in the Czech Republic, had to cut approximately 200 out of 1200 jobs due production decline during 2010. During the last few years, Veba has developed a successful business concept - African brocade with special finishes from the finest combed Egyptian cotton yarn - exclusively for the African market.
Eurofound (2010), Veba Broumov, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 70878, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70878.