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.
Furniture producer FS Favorit Furniture announced plans to close down its unit in Szczytno (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) and cut all 419 jobs by the end of April 2014. The company will implement a collective dismissal programme.
As reported, the factory is no longer profitable due to a shrinking order book and a decline in the furniture market. FS Favorit Furniture is a part of the multinational IMS Switzerland group.
Eurofound (2014), FS Favorit Furniture, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 76456, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76456.