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 31 July 2013, the transport and logistics company DHL Solution France has closed its site in Dreux after the decision of its single client, the Dutch group Philips, to transfer its logistic supply chain to Lyon. All the 108 employees were dismissed by August; they have now access to an outplacement service.
Eurofound (2013), DHL Solutions France, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 75853, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75853.