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.
Euromoteur, producer of motors for electrical appliances, will shed 248 jobs out of its 400 strong workforce. The site of Carpiquet will close (176 jobs) and 72 jobs will go in Saint-Lô. The orders from its sole customer, SEB-Moulinex, are decreasing, hence the restructuring plan. On 6 July 2004, the courts urged Euromoteur to better its social plan.
Eurofound (2004), Euromoteurs, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 60475, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60475.