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 27 April 2011, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced plans to cut 300 jobs. The Minister Radosław Sikorski said that the dismissals will be carried out in two stages by the end of June 2012. According to the plans of the Ministry 100 people will lose their jobs by the end of 2011 and next 200 jobs will be eliminated in the first half of 2012. The restructuring programme aims to make saving of dozen million PLN.
Eurofound (2011), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych), Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 71936, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71936.