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.
Carrier Holland Heating, manufacturer of air conditioning and refrigeration systems will cut 35 jobs in Waalwijk (10% of the total workforce of the production site). The management justified the need for cutting costs by the competition with other producers, namely German companies that delocalize part of their production to Eastern Europe.
Eurofound (2005), Carrier Holland Heating, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 61344, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61344.