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.
Up to 892 employees of the Hungarian local-government operated schools system are to lose their jobs it has been announced. The job losses are expected to number between 748 and 892, and a number of job losses could also occur through non-compulsory means. The job losses will affect schools across Hungary, and are to be implemented from September 1st 2007. The local Governments who made the decisions attribute the restructuring to a change in the financing of education, an increase in the minimum number of classes for teachers, and to a drop in the number of children attending schools. Both primary and secondary schools are to be affected by the changes, and many regions will either see schools close, or merge with other schools in the region. Various regions were more affected than others. In the Békés county, 100 employees are to lose their jobs as a result of the merger of schools. In Győr, the capital of the Győr-Moson-Sopron county, 112 teachers are to be made redundant.
Eurofound (2007), Hungarian local-government schools, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 65754, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65754.