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.
Telecommunications company Telefónica O2 Czech Republic has announced 400 job cuts (out of 8,000 jobs) by the end of 2010 in order to increase effectiveness. The firm had already reduced the workforce by 370 in 2009.
Eurofound (2010), Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 70616, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70616.