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 13 May 2009 Eriks, a wholesaler of technical parts, announced it wil cut 450 jobs (out of a total of 1,000) due to the global economic crisis. As of May 2009, there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by.
Eurofound (2009), Eriks, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 68909, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68909.