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.
Valeo Systemes Thermiques, the French manufacturer of heating systems for the car industry , has announced that it plans to reduce the number of personnel at its production site in La Suze-sur-Sarthe by 310 in the 2008-2011 period.
The plants currently employs 670 workers plus another 60 temporary workers whose contracts will not be renewed.
The direction attributed the job losses (only 38 job cuts were foreseen three months ago) to a reduction in orders and the loss of contracts.
Eurofound (2008), Valeo Systemes Thermiques, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 66805, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66805.