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.
ABB Composites, a branch of the multinational robotics and automation company ABB, has given notice to 110 employees at its site in Öjebyn in Sweden after a decision to close the site in 2015. Part of the production will be moved to Lodz in Poland instead. The site currently employs around 120 people.
The ABB group employs a total of 9,200 people in Sweden at 30 different sites.
Update 2015-10-23: ABB Composites has withdrawn plans to reduce its workforce in Öjebyn, Sweden, and is no longer planning to transfer production to Poland. The company says staff requirements at the plant will remain at the current size of 120 for the foreseeable future.
Eurofound (2015), ABB Composites, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 78162, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78162.