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.
On 31 January 2013, a manufacturer of electronic components Esser based in Nowa Sól announced bankruptcy. All 116 workers will be dismissed by the end of February 2013. It is reported that the company has had financial problems and workers have not received salaries for few months. The factory has been operating in Nowa Sól since late 90s.
Eurofound (2013), Esser Polska, Bankruptcy in Poland, factsheet number 75273, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75273.