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.
Health insurance company VZP is to cut about 300 jobs out of the total 4,000 staff. Redundancies are scheduled for mid 2012. The company aims to reduce operational costs and cut the number of regional branches by half by 2013.
At the end of 2011, about 520 jobs were lost due to the cost savings plan.
Eurofound (2012), VZP, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 73516, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73516.