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 10 March 2010, the management of the American Internet group AOL (5000 employees) announced their intention to cut 900 jobs. The job losses affect 200 employees in the US deemed redundant in the wake of the Huffington Post purchase. 400 jobs will also be cut in India.
Eurofound (2011), AOL, Merger/Acquisition in World, factsheet number 71775, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71775.