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.
Hewlett Packard, a company that works in the IT sector, has announced that 3,378 jobs at EDS, a company that they have recently taken over, are to be cut. This measure is part of Hewlett Packard’s decision to cut over 24,000 jobs worldwide since the takeover of EDS in September 2008. As of 12 October 2008, the company has yet to confirm when or where the job losses will occur, but the 15,000 UK-based EDS staff are based at over 200 sites across the country.
Eurofound (2008), Hewlett-Packard, Merger/Acquisition in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67210, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67210.