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 22 August, supermarket chain Jumbo announced a social plan affecting 500 to 600 employees. Reason for the redundancies is the integration of Jumbo and the C1000 chain, which was taken over by Jumbo.
Job losses will mainly take place at the head offices of Jumbo and C1000. The number of employees will be reduced from 1,300 to around 700.
Eurofound (2012), Jumbo, Merger/Acquisition in Netherlands, factsheet number 74040, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74040.