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 10 January 2014, the management of the Szpital Specjalistyczny in Kościerzyna (Specialist Hospital in Kościerzyna) announced plans to implement a collective dismissals programme affecting between 150 and 233 jobs by the end of August 2014. The dismissals will affect all groups of workers, excluding residents and interns. The job cuts are associated with the bad financial situation of the hospital (the institution is highly indebted). The local trade unions are considering industrial action.
Eurofound (2014), Szpital Specjalistyczny in Kościerzyna, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 76452, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76452.