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 14 November 2014 ABN Amro announced that it will cut 650 to 1000 jobs in the retail banking department before 2018. The bank indicates that the reason behind the job cuts is that an ever increasing share of transactions are taking place online and that less and less people visit bank branches (294 at present). A spokesperson stresses that the service levels will be increased, not decreased. The union for professional and managerial staff De Unie has expressed its doubts with regard to this statement.
Eurofound (2014), ABN Amro, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 77876, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77876.