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.
Valbruna Stainless Steel, leader in the steel industry, is to close its plant in Bolzano, with the consequent loss of 120 jobs. The closure should be operative in February 2011. In Italy Valbruna has another plant, located at Vicenza, and it has a total workforce of around 1500 employees.
Eurofound (2010), Valbruna Stainless Steel, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 70611, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70611.