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.
On 20 April, Sovab, a subsidiary of car manufacturer Renault, announced to reduce its production from 500 to 422 vehicles on the 16 April. It had already decreased the production by the end of December 2011.
To make face to this decrease, the management cut 313 temporary contracts on a total of 440 by the end of April.
Eurofound (2012), Sovab, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 73578, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73578.