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.
Construction group VolkerWessels announced that it will cut 300 out of a total of 12,000 jobs in the Netherlands. Background is the wish to cut costs in a very difficult market and the erosion of margins.
Earlier this year, negotiations with the unions on an overall social plan were unsuccessful. A timeline for the restructuring is not yet known.
Eurofound (2012), VolkerWessels, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 74043, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74043.