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.
Sony has announced the redundancy of 31% of its workforce in the production site of Ribeauvillé, i.e. 300 job losses out of a total of 977. This is due to the fact that the production of the portable PC Vaio will be delocalised in Asia.
Eurofound (2004), Sony, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 60470, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60470.