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.
Autoliv France, subsidiary of the Swedish automotive safety systems manufacturer and suppplier Autoliv, is to cut 164 jobs at its site in Gournay-en-Bray (Seine-Maritime) in response to the decreasing market. The management announced that the job reduction measure would be achieved through a twelve weeks voluntary departure plan. If there are not enough volunteers, the group will then have to dismiss employees until November 2016.
After the announcement, employees have decided to go on strike and ask for a meeting with the group management.
Eurofound (2014), Autoliv France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 77624, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77624.