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.
Less & Forest, a wood and forestry company, is to dismiss 206 out of 696 employees due to insolvency. The workforce reduction will take effect on 29th October 2012.
Furthermore, 200 employees with temporary contracts ending in autumn 2012 will also be released. Overall, the workforce will be reduced by 60%.
Updated, 01-02-2013: According to the sources the company decided not to implement any job cuts.
Eurofound (2012), Less & Forest, Bankruptcy in Czechia, factsheet number 74374, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74374.