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.
Gorenje, a Slovenian blue-chip household appliance manufacturer, decided to relocate production of Asko appliances from Sweden (see factsheet) to Slovenia, which results in 450 new jobs being created in Valenje by September 2013.
At the end of 2011, the company employed 4,423 people in Velenje, Savinjska region.
Eurofound (2012), Asko, Business expansion in Slovenia, factsheet number 73870, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73870.