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.
Unistav, a Brno-based construction company, is to cut 70 out of 350 jobs (i.e. 20% workforce reduction) in 2013, due to the ongoing economic crisis and its negative consequences on the construction sector. The company is one of the largest in the region.
Eurofound (2012), Unistav, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 74744, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74744.