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.
Gebr. Heinemann, the company which runs six tax-free shops at Copenhagen Airport, has dismissed 107 employees due to the COVID-19 crisis and lack of costumers in the airport. The company had made an agreement with the trade union HK Handel Hovedstaden to offer an outplacement procedure to the staff that has been dismissed. Affected employees will among other things be offered assistance with job applications.
Eurofound (2020), Gebr. Heinemann, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 101152, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101152.