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 21 April 2009, the construction company Bauer announced to cut around 250 jobs of temporary agency workers worldwide. Bauer employed 8,647 workers in 2008. The company anticipates a decline in orders in 2009 and 2010. Therefore, temporary agency workers are to leave the company.
Eurofound (2009), Bauer, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68804, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68804.