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.
On 16 December 2010, the Coal mining company Vršanská uhelná announced a plan to cut 101 jobs out of a total 691 staff within next several months (no precise timeline is given). Local labour office in Most says that workforce reduction will be socially sensitive and should not affect couples and single mothers.
Eurofound (2010), Vršanská uhelná, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 71381, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71381.