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 19 May 2009 Philips announced the loss of 159 jobs (out of a total of just over 900) in its Rossendaal plant. Its glass oven will stop production of fluorescent (TL) lamps. The company plans to buy glass from Poland in the future.
Eurofound (2009), Philips, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 69037, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69037.