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.
Vodafone's chief executive has announced that the company would cut 1,700 jobs across shared service centres in Egypt, India and Romania this financial year. Job reductions represents about 8% of the workforce in that side of the business (22,000 positions). The cuts are part of a cost saving plan of about €8 billion. The chief executive stresses that more back-office functions are taken over by 'robots'. Vodafone employs about 105,000 employees worldwide.
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