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.
Finnish food company HK Scan announced that it is to cut 150 jobs in the south of Sweden (see here) and to close a plant in Bjaerskov, Denmark, in September, with 70 job cuts.
At the end of 2011, the company employed 2,511 employees in Sweden and 844 in Denmark, and has a total workforce of about 7,882 in Europe.
Eurofound (2012), HK Scan, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 74517, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74517.