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.
Holcim, manufacturer of cement and cement products, is to cut 180 out of 540 jobs in Italy. The job cuts will mainly affect the plants of Merone (in the province of Como) and Ternate (in the province of Varese).
The trade unions reacted to the company’s decision by organizing a one-day strike and blockading the gates of the Merone plant.
Eurofound (2013), Holcim, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 74784, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74784.