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.
Danone announced plans to cut 236 positions by 2015. According to trade union sources the redundancies will be carried out across the company’s management and administrative staff, mainly in the fresh milk products segment (79 positions).
Job cuts will be reached through both voluntary redundancies and relocation within the company. Details on the implementation of the redundancies are said to be given in March.
The group has announced a European wide cost savings plan outlining 900 job cuts by 2015 (see here).
Eurofound (2013), Danone, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74966, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74966.