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.
The construction company Granit Gradbeništvo based in Slovenska Bistrica (Podravska region) has initiated the bankruptcy procedure, with 160 consequent job losses.
The reason is the heavy crisis that has hit the construction sector in Slovenia. Granit Gradbeništvo is insolvent and has not been able to pay the employees’ wages.
Eurofound (2012), Granit Gradbeništvo, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 74550, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74550.