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.
Recycling company Van Gansewinkel announced that it will cut 300 jobs, for the major part temporary employment. The background is a major drop in the supply of industrial waste of some 5%. Moreover, recycling as such has become less profitable due to the drop in metal prices.
Eurofound (2009), Van Gansewinkel, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 68624, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68624.