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.
Upetrom company, manufacturer of machinery for the oil extractive industry, announced the intention to dismiss 744 employees in September 2011. This is a result of a restructuring programme to adjust to decreasing market demand. At present the company has 1,544 employees.
Eurofound (2011), Upetrom 1 Mai, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 72315, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72315.