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.
Sun Microsystems, an American IT company, has announced that it is to cut up to 2,500 jobs (7,5% of its workforce worldwide), due to the first quarter 2008 losses amounting to aprroximately USD 34 million. As of May 2008, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2008), Sun Microsystems, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 66617, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66617.