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.
In 2003 LEGO dismissed around 250 employees in Billund, DK. March 2004 the toy factory announced a redundancy of 500 employees at global level, hereof one third in Denmark. The redundancies will take place over a period of two years. However, 100 dismissals will have immediate effect.
Eurofound (2004), LEGO, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 59366, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59366.