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.
Svevia, active in maintenance and construction of roads and motorways, has announced 165 redundancies due to a shortage of orders. Jobs will go all over Sweden both in administrative functions and in production.
Svevia, with 2,793 employees, is wholly owned by the Swedish government. The company has announced two major rounds of redundancies earlier in 2012. Those cases are covered in fact sheets 22271 and 20237.
As of January 2013 there is no information about when the reductions will start taking effect, or when they will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2012), Svevia, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 74763, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74763.