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.
On 15 August 2005 the producer of copper tubes Outokumpu Pori Tube, formerly part of the Outokumpu copper company, started codetermination negotiations in order to cut 33 jobs. According to the company the restructuring measures are carried out due to the weakening demand of the product and the high raw copper costs.
Eurofound (2005), Outokumpu Pori Tube, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 62128, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62128.