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 medical company, Lundbeck, dismissed 200 workers, of which 170 are in Valby, Copenhagen. Lundbeck has subsidiaries in many countries. The redundancies in Valby is due to massive investments in a new modern production plant in England.
Eurofound (2003), Lundbeck, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 59171, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59171.