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.
Elektroconnect Company, a subsidiary of French Nexans Autoelectric group, will dismiss 60 out of 300 employees in Gelnica, Slovakia.
The company produces wire harnesses for agriculture and construction machines. Redundancies, which are due to a significant decline in orders for the second half of 2012, contribute to an already difficult situation in the region with a 22% unemployment rate.
Eurofound (2012), Elektroconnect, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 74034, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74034.