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.
Paper mill Větřní is to cut over 130 out of a total 630 jobs by the end of October 2010. The job cuts are blamed on the company's financial problems (monthly loss amounting to CZK 10 million). Most of dismissals will affect manual workers; office workers make up only one tenth of the workforce reduction.
Eurofound (2010), Papírny Větřní, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 70899, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70899.