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.
Flextronics has announced that it is to close its site in Venray with the loss of 240 jobs. Xenox photocopiers are assembled at the Venray site, and the plant is due to close by July 2008. The decision to close the site at Venray follows the announcement of the ‘offshoring’ of 456 of 696 jobs at the site in October 2006.
Eurofound (2007), Flextronics, Closure in Netherlands, factsheet number 65943, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65943.