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.
Linde Group, a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 52,000 employees working in around 100 countries worldwide, has announced 3,000 job losses worldwide due to a drop in sales of 7.6 % in the 1st quarter of 2009. There is no further information on where the job losses will occur and when they will be implemented by. Negotiations with the works council have not yet started.
Eurofound (2009), Linde, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68861, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68861.