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.
RTC Holding, a retailer of stationery products, has announced the dismissal of 1,000 employees by the end of 2009. The job losses are attributed to a significant fall in sales. As of December 2008, the group employed 5,100 people.
Eurofound (2009), RTC Holding, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 68350, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68350.