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 19 September 2012 IBM Netherlands announced it will cut 240 permanent jobs, out of a total of 4200 in the Netherlands.
In addition, an estimated few hundred flexworkers will be dismissed. The measure is part of a worldwide restructuring operation. It is reported that a large number of jobs is to be offshored to India. The workers’ unions have been critical of the measure.
Eurofound (2012), IBM, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 74305, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74305.