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.
Merial, world leader in veterinary activities, announced on 21 September 2005 its will to cut 200 jobs amongst its 1,700 workers in France by 2009. The objective is to reorganise the production activities settled in Lyon and Lentilly. Merial is a subsidiary of Sanofi-Avnetis and Merck and employs about 6,000 persons in the world.
Eurofound (2005), Merial, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 62352, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62352.