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.
BT, the traditional telecommunication operator for the United Kingdom, has announced that it is to create 150 new jobs in its Belgian site before 2010. The new posts are for IT-specialists. This is part of the business expansion of the company all over the world. BT Benelux is employing 2,108 people in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The company currently employs 400 people in Belgium.
Eurofound (2008), British Telecom Benelux, Business expansion in Belgium, factsheet number 66194, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66194.