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.
IT company Logica will cut 700 UK jobs following its acquisition by the Canadian firm CGI. The redundancies account for more than 10% of the company's UK workforce. Similar activities are recorded in other EU countries, e.g. 250 jobs will be cut in Finland (see here) due to the merger.
As of 24 September, there is no timeline for the implementation of the job losses.
Eurofound (2012), Logica, Merger/Acquisition in United Kingdom, factsheet number 74145, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74145.