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 Danish producer of toys, Lego, announced 31 October 2017 that 470 employees, mainly administrative staff, will be made redundant in the near weeks. The reason is a significant fall in sales worldwide, in particular of the well-known Star Wars figures. Already in September Lego announced that a large number of employees would be dismissed in the near future.
Eurofound (2017), Lego, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 92513, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92513.