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.
Treves, a French car components manufacturer, announced that it will close two plants in France (Crepy-en-Valois and Ay) with the consequent loss of about 650 jobs. According to the management, last year Treves revenues decreased by 15%, while in the first quarter of 2009 they plunged by 50%. At the end of February, Treves received EUR 55 million aid from state fund to support car parts manufacturers (FMEA).
Eurofound (2009), Treves, Closure in France, factsheet number 68747, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68747.