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.
Romanian textile manufacturer Time International Trading has announced plans to dismiss 600 employees by January 2019 from its plants in Alexandria and Zimnicea. The redundancies are taking place due to the increasingly unstable financial situation of the company and the decrease in the number of orders for the company’s products. Time International Trading was established in 1994 and specialises in manufacturing a wide range of men’s clothing for export on the international market and mainly Europe, the United States and Asia.
Eurofound (2018), Time International Trading, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 95825, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95825.