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.
The largest bank in Denmark, Den Danske Bank, announced 5 February 2009 that 250 employees, mainly in the IT-department in Copenhagen, will be made redundant. Danske Bank had a deficit of DKK 12 billion in 2008, which is the direct reason for the redundancies. Danske Bank has 23,600 employees.
Eurofound (2009), Danske Bank, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 68627, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68627.