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.
TPG Post plans to cut 5000 jobs by 2013. TPG's main business is post: collecting, sorting, transporting and delivering letters and parcels. The company also specializes in data and document services, direct mail, e-commerce and international post. Most of the jobs should be cut until 2008. The job losses (5000) will be replaced by 11000 cheaper jobs. (19-02-2003) TGP Post wants to replace 9000 full-time mailmen by part-time workers.
Eurofound (2002), TGP, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 59827, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59827.