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.
Asarel Medet, the open pit copper miner, will gradually lay off 193 workers in Bulgaria. The downsizing is a result of the sliding global copper prices, which forced the company to trim its annual output, said the human resources director, Aleksander Chobanov. Asarel Medet cut its production target by 45% compared to last year's level.
Eurofound (2009), Asarel-Medet, Internal restructuring in Bulgaria, factsheet number 68853, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68853.