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 Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis (CWZ), a hospital in the eastern city of the Netherlands, in Nijmegen, will cut 150 FTE positions amongst its nursing staff. The Hospital employs 2,650 FTES. The reason for these redudancies are the increasing costs which the hospital has been facing in recent years which also entailed budget cuts in the past. Part of the expenses went on modernisation which included buying the Electronic Patient Record (EPD), demmed necessary by the hospital's board, for which the hospital registered a loss of 1.8 million in 2017.
Eurofound (2019), Canisius Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis , Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 97555, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97555.