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.
Sanmina-SCI Tourlaville, a firm that manufactures metal components for the telecommunications sector, is to close its site in Cherbourg with the loss of 300 jobs. The Cherbourg site will close by the end of March 2008, and production at the site will be ‘offshored’ to Hungary and Thailand. Sanmina-SCI Corp, the parent company of Sanmina-SCI Tourlaville, has attributed the decision to close the site to increased competition, an increase in costs, and a decline in global demand.
Eurofound (2007), Sanmina-SCI Tourlaville, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 66016, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66016.