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 Swedish insurance company Skandia plans to cut 250 jobs in Sweden. The job losses are blamed on the need to reduce costs. Skandia, owned by Old Mutual, currently employs some 2,300 people in Sweden.
Eurofound (2011), Skandia, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 71737, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71737.