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 Société Citrique Belge, producer of citric acid, has announced its intention to cut 75 of the 350 jobs it counts in Tienen. This restructuring plan was foreseeable, as when DSM took over the company from Roche, it declared its ambition to implement a cost saving programme.
Eurofound (2004), Société Citrique Belge, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 60452, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60452.