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.
OKD Rekultivace, a Czech company specializing in recultivation of landscape, has announced that it is to cut 140 jobs out of 400 due to the global economic crisis. Redundant workers will be given a compensation amounting up 11 average monthly wages and the most affected people at the local labour market will receive additional financial support. As of April 2009, there is no information on when the jobs losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2009), OKD Rekultivace, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 68826, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68826.