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.
Impress, producer of parts of tin cans, will shed 80 to 90 jobs out of a total of 270. The production lines will be automated. Impress belongs to the Doughty Hanson group, which employees 8,000 people in 40 sites all over Europe.
Eurofound (2004), Impress, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 60704, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60704.