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.
Petrof, Europe´s largest piano manufacturer, has been undergoing a serious sales crisis since the beginning of 2004. The management of the company had to close four plants (sites in ÄŒeská LÃpa, Liberec, Moravský Krumlov, JiÅ™Ãkov) and to let go 360 workers during a one-year period. Main restructuring reasons are following: unfavourable exchange-rate, decreasing world demand and the price competition of musical instruments from China.
Eurofound (2004), Petrof, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 61533, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61533.