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.
Fralsen, watch maker, subsidiary to Timex, will delocalise part of its production to China. 141 jobs will be cut before the end of 2007 in its site of Besançon which counted 262 employees on 23 June 2004. The social impact will be weak as there will be an important number of retirements during this period.
Eurofound (2004), Fralsen, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 60496, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60496.