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.
Dutch group Philips announced on 15 February 2005 the loss of 102 jobs over the next two years at its local Middelburg factory, as well as the relocation of a part of its production in Poland. 65 jobs were cut in the same factory back in November 2003.
Eurofound (2005), Philips, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 61191, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61191.