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.
Japanese electronic producer Matsushita Electric Industrial is to stop its current-generation mobile phone production and to release over 1,000 employees worldwide. The company restructuring plan involves the closing of manufacturing plants in the Czech Republic, in the Philipines and a development centre in the United States.
Eurofound (2005), Matsushita Electric Industrial, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 62611, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62611.