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.
The merger of Cegetel and Neuf Telecom, two French telephone operators, gave rise to a redundancy programme , which according to the union SUD-PTT, will concern 500 and 1,000 jobs out of 4,000. Further information had been given by the management on 23 September 2005. The redundancy programme will be dealt as follow: on top of 100 direct dismissals, 661 voluntary resignations are expected; 200 employees will be internally redeployed and 300 external consulting jobs will go.
Eurofound (2005), Neuf Telecom-Cegetel, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 61595, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61595.