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.
Producer of chip making machinery BESI announced it will cut 210 jobs worldwide, mainly in Malaysia. There will also be job cuts in Europe; the Netherlands alone faces 20 redundancies. Most of the redundancies will affect temporary contracts, but BESI has also announced to cut on executives and overhead in Europe. The job cuts are blamed on recent loss of turnover.
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