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 telecom company Relacom is planning to cut 400 jobs in Sweden and introduce six-days working weeks. Southern, Western and central Sweden will be most affected by the redundancy plan.
According to the trade union SEKO, dismissals are the result of the pressure by Relacoms client Telia. Earlier this year, Relacom laid off 450 people. Relacom used to be called Flextronics until it was sold to Altor and merged with Telavo last summer.
Eurofound (2006), Relacom, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 64522, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64522.