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.
GE Money Bank, provider of financial products, is to dismiss about 155 people by the end of March 2012. The downsizing will affect support service divisions and managerial positions. The firm, facing international competition, wants to increase effectiveness at the global market.
GE Money Bank, a division of multinational conglomerate General Electric, currently employs about 2,600 people.
Eurofound (2012), GE Money Bank, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 73188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73188.