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.
Italian IT company CDC is to cut 127 jobs in its sites located at Pontedera and Fornacette. The group has around 400 workers, all employed in Tuscany (Pisa, Pontedera and Fornacette sites). According to the company, the job cuts are mainly due to the fall in sales.
The trade unions have requested the involvement of the local authorities in order to avoid the job cuts.
Eurofound (2012), CDC, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 73444, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73444.