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.
The machinery manufacturer Primetals Technologies France has announced a reorganisation of its plant of Savigneux with 64 job cuts out of a total workforce of 344 employees. The management has announced this restructuring on 4 February to the works council. According to sources, the management wants to avoid direct dismissals and will try to negotiate a voluntary departure plan with the unions. PriMetals, which employees around 9,000 staff worldwide, resulted from a Joint Venture between Siemens VAI Metal Technologies and the Japanese engineering and electronics company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) in 2014.
Eurofound (2016), Primetals Technologies, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 86608, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86608.