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, a car manufacturer owned by French Renault, will reduce the number of workers in 2021; as a consequence, 345 workers will lose their job. The redundancies reasons are both the COVID-19 crisis and the increased minimum wage. The news follows 400 layoffs in June 2020 and 250 layoffs in February 2020.
Eurofound (2021), Revoz, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 103936, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/103936.