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.
Közgép, a construction and metal structure manufacturing company, has announced that the company will lay-off 350 employees, half of its staff. The job losses will affect 283 administrative positions and 67 blue-collar jobs. According to the official announcement of the company  the reason for the restructuring is the decline in the civil engineering sector. It may be a relevant fact to consider that the Hungarian Public Procurement Board prohibited Közgép from participating in public tenders for the next three years in July of 2015.Â
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Eurofound (2015), Közgép, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 85208, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85208.