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, printer and photocopier manufacturer Océ announced that it is to cut 550 jobs worldwide. In 2008, Océ already cut 1,250 jobs.
On 2 October 2009, the company declared that in 2009 a total of 1170 jobs had been scrapped worldwide, with another 330 to go.
Eurofound (2009), Océ, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68912, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68912.