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.
Konstruktor, a construction company from Maribor, has filed for bankruptcy leaving 250 people jobless. The entire Slovenian construction sector is in heavy crises faced with payment arrears and the lack of new orders.
The company's employees haven't received their wages for the last five months. The company entered the bankruptcy procedure and it is reported that all employees will lose their jobs.
Eurofound (2011), Konstruktor, Bankruptcy in Slovenia, factsheet number 72698, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72698.