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.
US-based Dow Chemical, a multinational chemical corporation, announced that it will cut 2,400 jobs in the coming two years. Twenty plants will be closed.
Countries affected are the Netherlands (Delfzijl, 43 employees), Belgium, Spain, the UK, Japan and the US.
Eurofound (2012), Dow Chemical, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 74453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74453.