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.
Swedish producer of extruded aluminium profiles, Sapa Profiler, has announced that the site in Vetlanda is closing, resulting in 185 redundancies. The company announced that despite major restructuring measures profitability is still low.
The ERM reported on restructuring cases at Sapa Profiler in 2012 and 2008.
Eurofound (2015), Sapa Profiler, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 85109, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85109.