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.
DOW Belgium, subsidiary of the American multinational chemical company DOW, announced plans to close its high density polyethylene facility in Tessenderlo, Belgium. 115 jobs are to be lost.
The closure is part of a global cost-cutting restructuring plan envisaging approx. 2,400 job cuts.
According to the sources the company plans to close the site by 15th December 2012.
Eurofound (2012), DOW Belgium, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 75947, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75947.