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.
Novoles Plus, producer of plywood from Straža near Novo mesto in the Jugovzhodna Slovenija region, has announced to make its entire workforce of 130 redundant.
Due to outstanding debts the company had to sell one of the crucial machines for the production of plywood. This has resulted in severe problems in fulfilling the delivery contracts. The end result is that all the assets of the company are now on sale and all 130 employees lost their job.
Eurofound (2012), Novoles Plus, Closure in Slovenia, factsheet number 73379, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73379.