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.
Connect Systems, a Belgian producer of cables and cable-harnesses based in Vráble industrial park, is to cut 130 jobs by moving production from Slovakia to Romania. Delocalisation of production was triggered by the global economic crisis and is aimed at reducing labour costs.
Eurofound (2008), Connect Systems, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovakia, factsheet number 67310, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67310.