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.
Danish-capital furniture manufacturing company Theco Furniture is to dismiss 87 employees in Alytus. According to the management, the main cause of the dismissals is the quarantine regime in Lithuania. Such information was provided by the Lithuanian Employment Service. To control the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), the Lithuanian Government declared quarantine on the entire territory of the Republic of Lithuania as of 16 March 2020.
Currently Theco Furniture employs 709 employees. Furniture production was relocated from Denmark to Lithuania in 2006. The company is exporting their products to more than 50 countries worldwide.
Eurofound (2020), Theca Furniture, Internal restructuring in Lithuania, factsheet number 100119, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100119.