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.
Thermoplast, a plastic car parts producer, went banckrupt and all 110 employees at Dětřichov plant have lost their jobs. Workers have not been given wages for 2 months already.
Eurofound (2010), Thermoplast, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 71118, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71118.