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.
Goodyear, the US-based world´s largest tire company, is to cut 5,000 jobs out of a total 72,000 worldwide due to the financial loss of USD 330 million in fourth quarter of 2008. The restructuring programme would cut operational costs by USD 700 million this year.
Eurofound (2009), Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68246, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68246.