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.
Electrolux will close its stove manufacturing plant in Motala and cut some 240 jobs by 2011. Production will be transferred to existing facilities in Poland.
Electrolux has opened up for external manufacturers to produce stoves at the Motala plant. This could save some 70 jobs. As of January 2010, no external manufacturer has shown interest.
Eurofound (2010), Electrolux, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Sweden, factsheet number 70144, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70144.