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.
The Danish brewer Carlsberg is to dismiss 150 employees at its central brewery in Fredericia. This was announced in the press 15. january 2009. 100 will be made redundant while 50 jobs will dissapear through natural wastage. According to management, the reasons for the redundancies are the economic crisis and a decline in sales and a general uncertainty regarding changes in consumers' habits.
Eurofound (2009), Carlsberg, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 67865, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67865.