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.
France Telecom, the French telecommunications company, announced on 28 January 2005 that 5,500 jobs would be suppressed in France by the end of 2005. This decision will be made possible thanks to 8,500 retirements expected for 2005. However, the company affirmed that 3,000 jobs would be created during 2005. However, these 3,000 jobs include 1,800 part-time positions in marketing and sales divisions, mostly performed by students, for which these contracts are not term contracts.
Eurofound (2005), France Télécom, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 61110, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61110.