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 8 June 2011, Maltese telecommunications company GO announced that it plans to reduce its workforce by 100 employees. Go announced that these job cuts are aimed at improving the company's competitive edge, by increasing efficiency and curbing labour costs.
Eurofound (2011), GO (Malta), Internal restructuring in Malta, factsheet number 72131, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72131.