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 the 9 June 2013, French catering company Sodexo announced plans to cut 217 jobs in France by means of voluntary departures, before May 2014. This is in the framework of a worldwide cost saving plan of 700 job cuts (see here). The departure plan will be introduced after the consultation process with employees' representatives.
Eurofound (2013), Sodexo, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 75625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75625.