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.
Schmitz Cargobull Baltic, the company producing trailers and semi-trailers, dismissed 50 employees in Panevezys on 22 December, 2008. At present the company employs 300 people. Schmitz Cargobull Baltic operates as a branch company of the Schmitz group, which is based in Germany. The main cause of the dismissals was decreased company's sales.
Eurofound (2008), Schmitz Cargobull Baltic, Internal restructuring in Lithuania, factsheet number 67968, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67968.