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 coffee and tea maker Douwe Egberts will cut up to 600 jobs in the Netherlands until 2008. The restructuring will affect all sites and units of Douwe Egberts Netherlands. CNV Voeding trade union reacted with suprise to the news. A social plan will be negotiated in order to avoid as much direct dismissals as possible.
Eurofound (2005), Douwe Egberts, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 61872, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61872.