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.
Linak, a producer of electric actuator systems, is to dismiss 198 workers due to a sharp decline in demand for mechanical and electronic machinery and financial pressures.
As reported, Denmark has applied for assistance from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) based on restructuring that took place in the company in 2009.
Eurofound (2010), Linak, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 71979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71979.