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.
Confectionary producer Leaf plans to close down its plant in Aura (Finland) in early 2013 with the loss of up to 140 jobs. The job cuts result from the merger with Swedish confectionery company Cloetta as well as the need to improve efficiency and reduce production costs.
Part of the production may be transferred to Italy. The group has also announced the closure of production units in Gävle and Alingsås in Sweden (see fact sheet 20117).
Eurofound (2012), Leaf, Closure in Finland, factsheet number 73253, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73253.