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.
Hewlett Packard has announced plans to cut 25-30,000 jobs from its HP Enterprise arm. This follows on from a further 55,000 jobs cut since the current CEO, Meg Whitman, took over in 2012. The US based company has not yet announced where these job cuts will fall.
Eurofound (2015), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 84718, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84718.