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.
La Poste, the French postal services, wishes to streamline the organisation of its financial services. The reorganisation process will include the slimming of 2,800 jobs, mainly in back-office functions. Numerous retirements are foreseen until 2010, and a large number of them will not be replaced. 733 posts will already be suppressed in the course of this year.
Eurofound (2004), La Poste, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 59624, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59624.