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.
Hungarian telecommunications company Magyar Telekom, subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, is to cut 1,700 jobs. As announced the company has reached an agreement with the employee representatives on a restructuring plan envisaging job reduction measures in the following two years.
According to the sources the company announced support measures for the affected staff. The cost-cutting measure is in the framework of a corporate strategy plan aiming at enhancing its flexibility in a demanding market environment.
Eurofound (2014), Magyar Telekom, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 77343, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77343.