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.
Swedish pharmaceutical retailer Apoteket are making 70 people redundant from its headquarters in Solna, Stockholm. With a total workforce of 250 people the cuts affect one in three employees at the site.
Apoteket’s restructuring is an effort to change the organization to become more competitive by reducing costs.
Apoteket employs a total of 3,500 people in Sweden.
Eurofound (2014), Apoteket, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 77863, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77863.