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 CEO of the public rail company SNCF has announced a job reduction of between 1.5% and 2% of the workforce, which represents between 2,000 and 3,000 job cuts. The CEO did not specify which divisions will be affected the most but said that the job cuts will be made because of the 'issue of productivity and competitiveness is general'.
The SNCF has lost €6 billion in revenue in 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis and will have to face, from 2023, the total opening to competition of the entire national rail network, except for certain inter-city train links in the Paris region.
Eurofound (2021), SNCF, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 105346, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/105346.