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.
AXA Investment Managers, AXA's asset management subsidiary, has announced it will cut160 positions in France (out of a total workforce of 1217) in the frameworlk of a worldwide restructuring to cut 210 positions. The consultation of the employees' representative will continue until the fourth quarter of 2018. The new organisation will then be set up. According to management, departures will be on a voluntary basis. Management plans to invest some €100 million by 2020 to develop its expertise and management offer. This investment will be financed by a savings plan of a similar amount including the announced job cuts.
Eurofound (2018), Axa Investment Managers, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 94713, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94713.