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.
Contract catering giant Sodexo subisdiary, Lenôtre, which has a catering activity with shops in the Parisian region, will be affcetd by job cuts ranging from 184 to 197 positions. Sodexo also announced a dismissals of 2,183 workers in its corporate catering activities (canteens) and at its headquarters.
The serious drop in activity in the organisation of events (conventions, seminars, weddings, and other events) due to COVID-19 restrictions and the reduced number of visitors to Lenôtre boutiques, are the reasons, according to the management, for this redundancy plan.
Eurofound (2020), Lenôtre, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 102415, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102415.