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.
On 15 January 2009, Bang & Olufsen, a Danish producer of electronic audio and video equipment, announced that it is to cut 220 jobs worldwide (out of which 110 at the headquarters in Skjern, Denmark). The management explains that the current economic crisis and a lower level of activity have forced the company to restructure.
Eurofound (2009), Bang & Olufsen, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 67808, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67808.