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 6th January 2010, the postal express company Ducros Express presented its restructuring plan to its Works Council. The plan will affect up to 700 jobs and envisages at least 500 forced dismissals. The restructuring plan also includes changes in employment contract and internal mobility. Ducros belongs to the French group Caravelle who acquired it from Deutsche Post DHL last summer.
update 18-03-2011. Management and employee representatives agreed to preserve 100 jobs. The dismissal will affect 457 positions rather the 557 expected.
Eurofound (2011), Ducros Express, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 71409, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71409.