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.
Schering Plough, a US based pharmaceutical company, will relocate 160 jobs from the Netherlands back to the US, it announced on the 8th October 2008. It is relocating its R&D department, which carries out R&D in relation to cancer. Forced dismissals are not ruled out.
Eurofound (2008), Schering-Plough, Relocation in Netherlands, factsheet number 67647, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67647.