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.
Kompania Węglowa, an entity assembling 21 coal mines, has unveiled a restructuring programme geared at restoring profitability of operations. The plans call for shutting down two mines, for merging several others, and for extensive organisational changes for at least one more. Of the combined Kompania Węglowa workforce of 74,000 people, 12,000 will be dismissed, the premise being that, come 2006, employment at Kompania Węglowa should stabilise at roughly 65,000 people.
Eurofound (2004), Kompania Węglowa, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 60842, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60842.