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.
OHL ZS, a Czech construction company located in Brno, has announced between 100 and 200 redundancies in 2012. This follows 400 layoffs in 2011.
According to the company, reasons behind the workforce reduction are governmental cost savings programmes and the impact of the financial crisis. OHL ZS' revenues dropped from CZK 10.50 billion in 2010 to CZK 9 billion in 2011.
OHL ZS currently employs 1,600 people.
Eurofound (2012), OHL ZS, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 73139, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73139.