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.
![img text](https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2022-05/ef22038_3.png)
Sigma Coatings will abandon its 'coil' production line (industrial painting) which is transferred to another factory of the group, in Bochum, Germany. Management wants to start a procedure of collective redundancy (Renault procedure) but is in conflict with the unions for the age suggested for pre-pensions. Unions also fear that this reorganisation is a first step towards the total closing of the factory. Members of management were sequestered during several days in the offices of the company by angry workers. A social agreement was finally found between management and trade unions.
Eurofound (2003), Sigma Coatings, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 60209, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60209.