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.
Vemont, a construction company located in Velenje has filed for bankruptcy and 128 employees will lose their job. Aside from the nagtive effect of the crisis hitting the Slovenian construction sector, specific Vemont's business failure is due to the bankruptcy of its parent company Vegrad d.d. (see factsheet ID 16173) as well as the lack of resources to relaunch business activities.
Eurofound (2011), Vemont, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 71973, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71973.