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.
The Romanian integrated chemical company Amurco is to lay off its remaining 165 employees in November 2014. The dismissal plan comes as a result of bankruptcy, due to the decrease in demand for the company's products. The company entered insolvency in July 2014, after five months of inactivity.75pc of the total employees were dismissed in June 2014.
Eurofound (2014), Amurco, Bankruptcy in Romania, factsheet number 77775, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77775.