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.
Machine manufacturer Hollming Works is to cut 195 jobs. As announced, the restructuring will affect the sites in Kankaanpää and Rauma and its plant in Pori will cease its operations by March 2014. Additionally the company announced 55 temporary redundancies. According to media reports the job reductions are due to the lack of new orders.
Eurofound (2013), Hollming Works, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 76261, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76261.