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.
The large Danish windmill producer Vestas announced on 26 Oct 2010 that close to 2706 employees were made redundant. 1919 wil be fired in Denmark where four factories will be closed. At the global level, Vestas expects to fire 787, mostly salaried employees in administration. There is no information about the locations. The company is conducting layoffs because they anticipate that demand for wind turbines in Europe will go down in 2011.
Eurofound (2010), Vestas, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 71126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71126.