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.
Robecco, an asset management group, has anounced that it will cut 250 jobs from 2000 in the Netherlands. The company considers itself to be too expensive in comparison to its competitors. Cost cutting is considered unavoidable because of turnover decreases due to the credit crisis.
Eurofound (2008), Robeco, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 67646, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67646.