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 management would like to avoid direct dismissals and count on natural bearing of personnel, nonrenewals of temporary contracts, early retirements and outplacement measures. The group decided in September 2003 to close at the end of the year its engineering departmentlocated at Louvain-la-Neuve which employed 75 persons.
Eurofound (2003), Umicore, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 59720, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59720.