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 the framework of its Europe wide restructuring plan, France Télécom announced a social plan affecting 8,800 jobs in France. The job cuts will mainly be achieved through early retirement (8,000) and contracts coming to an end (800). At the same time, 1,400 jobs will be created within the research and development, sales and IT departments.
Eurofound (2004), France Télécom, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 59472, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59472.