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.
Yoplait Czech, a subsidiary of French dairy firm Yoplait, has decided to close the yogurt production plant in Slušovice which will result in 100 job cuts by the end of May 2011. The French company plans to move production back to France. Redundant workers have been promised high severance pay and job search assistance. Yoplait operates in approximately fifty countries.
Eurofound (2011), Yoplait Czech, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Czechia, factsheet number 71637, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71637.