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.
ABX Logistics France, provider of logistics services, has announced on 26 August 2004 its intention to shed 325 jobs and not renew 220 temporary contracts. The company is a subsidiary to the Belgian SNCB (it does not belong to ABX Logistics Worldwide). In the past few years, subsequent restructuring programmes have seen the company's headcount drop by 3.000.
Eurofound (2004), ABX Logistics France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 60611, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60611.