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 Cotentin public hospital has announced the reduction of 190 full-time equivalent jobs by 2022, out of a total of 2,400 full-time equivalent staff. This reduction is part of a sustainable deficit reduction plan that will be presented to the public authorities. This public hospital covers several municipalities and was born in the framework of the merger, on 1 April 2006, of the Louis Pasteur hospital at Cherbourg-en-Cotentin and the public hospital at Valognes. 'We do not see at all how we can still provide the services, the staff are already overwhelmed with work', says a representative of the union FO. The hospital is already approaching 10% of absenteeism, the double of the general national average, the union fears that the deterioration of working conditions can only have negative effects.
Eurofound (2018), Centre Hospitalier Public du Cotentin, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 95699, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95699.