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.
Japan-based Pioneer, one of the biggest home electronics producers, is to cut 6,000 permanent and 4,000 temporary jobs worldwide due to the global financial crisis. Pioneer announced that it would terminate flat screen TV production. The company currently employs 36,900 people worldwide. As of February 2009, there is no information on when job losses are to be implemented by.
Eurofound (2009), Pioneer, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68151, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68151.