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.
IHC Merwede, operating in the shipbuilding sector, announced on 24 September 2008, that it will hire 300 new employees, mainly technicians, but also for sales and admistrative functions. This decision is attributed to an increase in the order portfolio. AS of September 2008, there is no information on when the new jobs will be created by.
Eurofound (2008), IHC Merwede, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 67171, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67171.