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.
Hospital group Orbis announced on 9 March 2009 that it will cut 700 jobs. Background is a newly built hospital facility which was largely over budget (380m euro) as well as a large internal bureaucracy. On 20 March the unions rejected any compulsory dismissals, referring to an agreement concluded in 2008.
Eurofound (2009), Orbis, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 68625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68625.