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.
Defense and security company Cassidian, part of the EADS group, announced on the 29th of March a plan to cut 161 jobs in France in the framework of a european costs saving plan with 850 job cuts (see Factsheet). This plan will mainly affect management and administrative functions and will be carried out by means of voluntary departures. Other job cuts are expected in Germany, the United Kingdom (100 jobs) and Finland (30 jobs). In France, most job cuts (140) will affect the site of Elancourt.
Eurofound (2013), Cassidian, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74684, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74684.