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.
The American laminate supplier Isola informed its wholly-owned subsidiary Polyclad Europes staff in Perstorp that the plant would be closed. The manufacturing will be transferred to the companys units in Italy and Germany. Some 147 workers will be affected by the plan.
Eurofound (2006), Polyclad, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 63445, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63445.