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.
Baxter, pharmaceutical company, has announced a plan to reduce its workforce wordlwide by up to 8%. This would involve the redundancy of 3,500 to 4,000 employees. Half of these cuts will take place in the US. Last July, 3,000 jobs had already been cut.
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