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.
Sun Microsystems, the US IT company, has announced a restructuring that will lead to 3,300 redundancies, i.e. 9% of its workforce. Due to an increased competition from Intel and AMD, the company's sales are decreasing.
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