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.
Thraki, a firm that produces and preserves meat and poultry meat, has announced the closure of its site in Evros and the subsequent loss of 135 jobs. The decision has caused protest amongst local trade unions and a strike is being staged in protest at the decision.
Eurofound (2007), Thraki, Closure in Greece, factsheet number 65786, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65786.