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.
Czech mining company OKD will close its coke plant in Ostrava and cut 500 jobs out of 1,182 by the end of 2009 due to a sharp financial loss of the mother company New World Resources (NWR). Dismissed workers will be given compensation amounting up 6 average monthly wages.
Eurofound (2009), OKD, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 68930, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68930.