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.
The Girondins de Bordeaux football club has announced a plan to cut 10% of its workforce, that is 30 administrative and commercial positions out of a total of 300 employees. This plan will be implemented through voluntary redundancies (accord de rupture conventionnelle collective) according to the management, is provided for in a collective bargaining termination agreement which has been the subject of negotiations in recent weeks with trade unions and employee representatives. The management explains that it has not opened a precise list of functions to be removed, but that it should be clear by mid-December which candidates opted for voluntary departure, and how this will happen (mobility leave, assistance with training or setting up a business, and so on).
Eurofound (2020), Football club des Girondins de Bordeaux, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 102413, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102413.