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.
Tabacofina-Vander Elst, Belgium's last cigarette factory, is closing. The majority of its workers will leave the company by pre-pension. Managment, in cooperation with unions, wants to propose an in house job centre to help the other workers in finding a job elsewhere.
Eurofound (2003), Tabacofina-Vander Elst, Closure in Belgium, factsheet number 59461, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59461.