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.
Sanofi Aventis, one of the main pharmaceutical companies in the world, is to cut 500 jobs in Italy (out of 3,400). The job-cuts include the closure of the research centre located at Milan which employs around 50 workers. Trade unions criticized the company's decision, announcing various protest actions.
Eurofound (2011), Sanofi Aventis, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 72790, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72790.