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.
On 3 April 2009, Econcern, producer of green energy, announced that it is to cut 200 jobs, of which half in the Netherlands. The job losses are attributed to the global economic crisis with implications for the viability of new projects.
Eurofound (2009), Econcern, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 68723, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68723.