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.
In order to face a production fall, Ford, the car maker, will cut its workforce by 100 units in its production site of Blanquefort (Aquitaine). The cut will be achieved by pre-retirement measures aimed at workers of 57 years of age and more. Ford presently employs 3,600 at Blanquefort.
Eurofound (2004), Ford, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 60619, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60619.