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.
Sprint Nextel, US-based global telecommunication company, plans to cut 8,000 jobs out of 57,000 worldwide by the end of 2009 due to the global recession. The restructuring measures are aimed at cutting annual costs by USD 1.2 billion.
Eurofound (2009), Sprint Nextel, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68003, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68003.