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 21 February 2012, Chinese producer of televisions TPV Display announced plans to shut down the factory in Kobierzyce near Wrocław (the Wałbrzych Special Economic Zone) and dismiss 500 employees. The company plans to carry out the redundancy process by the end of March 2012.
It is reported that the redundant workers will receive a severance pay.
TPV has two plants in Poland (Kobierzyce and Gorzów Wielkopolski). The company decided to reduce operational costs by closing the factory in Kobierzyce and concentrating the production in Gorzów Wielkopolski.
Eurofound (2012), TPV Display, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 73150, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73150.