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.
Furniture manufacturer Lipa Plus has filed for bankruptcy and all 110 employees will be dismissed. The company has orders for the next three months but due to high indebtedness it is unable to pay workers. The owner says there are no possibilities to re-launch production.
Eurofound (2011), Lipa Plus, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 71584, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71584.