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.
Provider of mobile and fixed telephony services Romtelecom, which is part of the Deutsche Telekom group, announced the intentin to dismiss between 1,000 and 1,400 employees in 2011. The job losses are blamed on the decline in revenues from fixed telephony. At present the company has approximately 8,500 employees.
Eurofound (2011), Romtelecom, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 71530, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71530.