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.
Annovati, which produces furniture components, is to close its plant with the consequent loss of 127 jobs. The company, which is located in the province of Turin, has announced that the collective dismissal procedure will start in October 2012.
The trade unions reacted to the company's decision by going on strike.
Eurofound (2012), Annovati, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 73915, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73915.