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.
Z-group, a Czech producer of iron and steel, is to cut a further 53 jobs by the end of July 2009 due to a sharp decline in customer orders. Since the beginning of 2009, the company has already made 364 employees redundant. Z-group operates at 4 plants and before restructuring employed over 1,100 people.
Eurofound (2009), Z-group, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 69285, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69285.