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.
Management of the automotive parts supplier Faurecia announced on 9 September 2005 the closure of its Beaugency's site (Loiret). This restructuring concerns 157 jobs. Half of the affected employees are over 45 and fear that redeployment measures won't be efficient. Production has been transfered to two other sites in Magny-Vernois (Haute-SaƓne) and in Portugal. Management announced on 15 November 2005 the suppression of 110 jobs in its site of Pierrepont(Meurthe-et-Moselle). In April 2005, The company had already let go 387 workers.
Eurofound (2005), Faurecia, Closure in France, factsheet number 62360, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62360.