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 producer of hearing aids, Oticon in Thisted (Denmark) has announced that 100 employees in Thisted will be made redundant. The management announced the 29 February 2008 that the redundancies are due to relocation of a part of the production to Poland. The remaining 600 employees will still work in Thisted. The shop steward will now begin negotiations with the aim to reduce the number of redundancies.
Eurofound (2008), Oticon A/S, Relocation in Denmark, factsheet number 66364, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66364.