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.
Electroputere Craiova, manufacturer of electric motors, generators and transformers, announced their intention to dismiss 350 employees starting from 1 October 2010. The job losses are blamed on lack of market demand and financial debts amounting to 30 million euros. At the end of 2009, the company employed 1,975 employees in Craiova.
Eurofound (2010), Electroputere Craiova, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 71096, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71096.