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.
In response to the upcoming loss of several patents, Lilly pharmaceutical group will implement a voluntary redundancy programme whereby 250 positions will be eliminated from its locations in France beginning in March 2011. The job cuts will amount to approximately 10% of the company's French workforce.
Eurofound (2010), Lilly, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 70959, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70959.