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.
Danish ship owner and operator A.P. Moller-Maersk is to cut 400 jobs worldwide in its large container ship company, Maersk Line. 250 jobs will be shed at the headquarters in Copenhagen, where currently 2,200 people are employed.
According to the management the redundancies should be seen as a way of streamlining business operations and improve competitiveness. In total Mersk Line has 25,000 employees.
Eurofound (2012), Maersk Line, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 73716, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73716.