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.
On 16 September 2010, Slovenske železnice, the State owned Slovenian Railway, announced that their restructuring plan had resulted in 754 redundancies. Economic crisis has further deteriorated the situation in the company. The Ljubljana based Railways Company suffered a €9.4 million loss since spring and had to cut cost by reducing its workforce from 7,728 to 6,974.
Eurofound (2010), Slovenske železnice, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 71054, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71054.