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.
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The High Tech Industries (HTI) holding company plans to cut its workforce across its Austrian sites by around 200 to 1,000 by December 2009. The planned redundancies are part of a larger restructuring programme which affects virtually all of its European production sites.
The company which is quoted at the Vienna Stock Exchange thus continues to realise a restructuring programme initiated in 2008. Accordingly, the company aims at a concentration of production sites, large-scale redundancies and the strengthening of existing partnerships with the automotive industry as well as a new focus on mechanical engineering, in particular in the field of power technologies. In 2008, the whole HTI concern had to face losses of € 40 million.
Eurofound (2009), HTI, Internal restructuring in Austria, factsheet number 69187, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69187.