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.
After the American company EDS, specialised in business and technology services, was bought by Hewlett Packard, a restructuring process was announced. These measures will mainly concern in Belgium the workers of the EDS site in Mechelen. According to the trade unions, 300 jobs are planned to disappear.
Eurofound (2008), EDS (Electronic data system), Merger/Acquisition in Belgium, factsheet number 67281, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67281.