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.
Yahoo, the U.S. based global online network services provider, has announced that it is to cut 1,500 jobs out of a total of 15,000 due to the annual financial loss of 64% in the third quarter of 2008. As of November 2008, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
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