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.
State-owned Romanian hydro power producer Hidroelectrica announced the dismissal of 650 employees by the end of 2013. On 21 May the company announced that the first 304 employees had been laid off. Hidroelectrica finds itself in a judicial insolvency process and has approximately 4,800 employees.
Eurofound (2013), Hidroelectrica, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 75453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75453.