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.
Meet processing plant in Pilsen, known under the brand Schneider, will be closed by the end of August 2017 and 230 people are about to lose their jobs. Production is to be moved abroad (not yet known where). This step is related to the Carnibona Holding strategy of making production more efficient and improving customer service standards.
Eurofound (2017), Masokombinát Plzeň (Schneider), Closure in Czechia, factsheet number 91056, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91056.