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.
Telegraaf Media Groep, a Dutch media and publishing company, announced on 15 August 2008 that it is to cut 425 jobs out of a total of 3,500. According to a the company spokesperson, forced dismissal are inevitable. The job losses are due to the decresing income from advertisements and a loss of € 175 mln in the first semester of 2008.
Eurofound (2008), Telegraaf Media Groep, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 67170, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67170.