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.
Ferry company Scandlines, a merger of the national German and Danish ferry companies, has announced that it is to cut 400 jobs (out of 2,400) in an effort to cope with the decrease in transport volume due to the financial crisis. On June 2009, the company announced that job cuts will occur sooner than previously planned. As they were planned to be realised by 2011, it is to be assumed that they now will be realised in 2009 and 2010. However, no precise date has been given for the implementation of the job losses.
Eurofound (2009), Scandlines, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 68339, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68339.