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.
Trelleborg, Swedish manufacturer of rubber sealing and dampening solutions for industrial environments, is reducing the number of employees by 70 at the plant in Trelleborg. Of the 70 reductions 50 will be blue-collar workers and 20 will be white-collar.
Please see the following related cases for more information on previous rounds of redundancies: 15496, 9978, 3743.
As of November 2012 there is no information on when the reductions will begin to take effect or are planned to be implemented by.
Eurofound (2012), Trelleborg, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 74455, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74455.