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 Dutch media company, RTL is undergoing restructuring and as a result, 85 jobs will be lost, of which 44 are forced terminations of employment. The reorganisation involves the merging of several departments and the majority of the job reductions will fall among management, no journalists will lose their positions.
More job losses are expected to be announced later and will likely fall in the first quarter of 2019.
As of August 2018, RTL has some 800 employees.
Eurofound (2018), RTL Nederland, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 94825, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/94825.