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.
Kostelecké uzeniny, a traditional Czech smoked meats producer, is to cut about 150 jobs due to rising price of raw materials and reduction in sales. The workforce reduction (8% of the total staff) will occur gradually and will affect three company's units (80 job cuts at the Kostelec factory).
Eurofound (2013), Kostelecké uzeniny, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 75821, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75821.