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.
Tesco ČR, the largest retail company in the Czech Republic, plans to cut 290 jobs in the Czech Republic and move them to India. The restructuring will affect mainly accounting activities in Prague- and Brno-based headquarters of the company and is due to cost saving measures. The company has currently 158 stores in the Czech Republic and employs around 14,000 people.
Eurofound (2011), Tesco ČR, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Czechia, factsheet number 72098, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72098.