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.
Revoz is a car manufacturer located in Novo Mesto (Jugovzhodna Slovenija region) and owned by the French group Renault. Since the market potential for Twingo and Smart forfour cars was overestimated, Revoz announces a ten-percent contraction in the production of vehicles (from 42 to 38 per hour) after the abolition of the night shift in spring this year. As a result, 150 agency workers will loose their job in October 2015. After internal restructuring, 2,250 workers will be still employed.
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Eurofound (2015), Revoz, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 84987, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84987.