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.
NAM, the company responsible for the exploration and extraction of Dutch natural gas,announced 600 job cuts. The job cuts include a voluntary redundancy scheme for 200-300 employees on a permanent contract, as well as some 300 employees on a temporary contract. The company states that falling gas prices, due to a warm winter and the COVID-19 crisis, are the reason for the reorganisation, adding that another reorganisation is likely to take place in 2021.
NAM is a joint-venture of Shell and ExxonMobil and was established in 1947 to explore the Dutch oil and natural gas resources.
Eurofound (2020), NAM, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 102190, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102190.