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.
Schlumberger, a company providing oilfield services, is to cut 5,000 jobs worldwide. The company blamed the cuts on the falling crude prices, the current economic turmoil and the decline in energy consumption. Schlumberger employs 87,000 workers in approximately 80 countries but as of 23 January 2009 there is no information on which countries will be mostly affected or when the job losses will occur. The company is likely to announce further redundancies in the first half of 2009.
Eurofound (2009), Schlumberger, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 67922, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67922.