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.
On 31 March 2008, Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunication company which is partly state-owned, announced the loss of approximately 100 jobs across all its units in Norway. As of 30 April, 70 employees were dismissed and received a severance pay. The job cuts are attributed to the financial losses made by the company in 2007 and the need to reduce costs within the mobile phone operations by around NOK 500 million.
Eurofound (2008), Telenor Mobil, Internal restructuring in Norway, factsheet number 66559, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66559.