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.
Israeli-owned pharmaceutical company Teva is laying off 500 employees within the next few months in its Gödöllő manufacturing plant near Budapest. The Gödöllő facility will operate in reduced capacity until the middle of 2018, when Teva will close it down or sell it if a buyer is found. The company promised support to those being let go in finding new employment. The Gödöllő decision is part of Teva's global streamlining-restructuring plan. Even after operations cease in Gödöllő, Teva will continue to employ more than 2,000 people in Hungary at its Debrecen and Sajóbábony facilities.
Eurofound (2017), Teva Gyógyszergyár, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 90993, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90993.