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.
Intereuropa Transport, a Slovenian freight transport company, has announced its bankruptcy leaving 125 employees without job. Some of the workers are reported to be redeployed by the company.
Intereuropa Transport is part of the Slovenian Intereuropa group, forwarding agent and carrier, which is located in Koper in the Obalno-kraška region. The parent company decided to liquidate Intereuropa Transport and gives as a reason that it has not been able to cope with competitive pressures and has been producing losses for quite some time.
Eurofound (2011), Intereuropa Transport, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 72738, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72738.