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 French group Capgemini, an IT Engineering Service company, has announced that Capgemini outsourcing (2,000 employees in France) will cut 210 jobs in France between November 2006 and July 2007. This decision of the CEO results from the world plan of internal restructuring that the group announced in November 2005. The Capgemini group is a France-based company that specializes in the provision of consulting, technology, outsourcing and local professional services. The Company's consulting services focus on growth strategies, customer relationship management, and finance and employee transformation. Its outsourcing services comprise applications management, infrastructure management, business process outsourcing and transformational outsourcing. Its technology services include systems architecture, integration and infrastructure. The Capgemini group employs some 52,700 people in Europe, North America and Asia.
Eurofound (2006), Capgemini, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 63812, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63812.