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.
Pepsico Beverage Italia, the Italian subsidiary of Pepsi, is to close its plant located at Silea (TV) with the loss of around 150 jobs. The plant will close by the end of 2010. The trade unions reacted to the company's decision organising some protest actions. The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies was directly involved in order to find alternative solutions to the closure of the plant.
Eurofound (2010), Pepsico Beverage Italia, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 70887, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70887.