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.
Finland-based meat processor, HLKScan, announced on 28 January 2015 that between 85 and 99 jobs will be cut in Denmark. The company wants to reorganise production between the two poultry sites of Vinderup and Skovsgård. Slaughtering and cutting will be centralised in the plant at Vinderup while packaging and warehouse operation will remain in Skovsgaard. HKScan has 750 employees.
Eurofound (2015), HKScan, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 83998, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83998.