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.
Chocolate manufacturer Toms based in Ballerup (greater Copenhagen) has announced that it is to dismiss 150 employees. Redundancies will affect workers in production as well as skilled and white-collar workers. The management and the employees' representatives are negotiating possible measures to diminish the damages for affected workers. Toms employed 750 persons prior to the restructuring.
Eurofound (2008), Toms Gruppen, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 68040, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68040.