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 Académie de Reims, the local French education authority, is cutting 102 teaching positions in 2025. Due to a declining number of students, the academy has decided to reduce the number of teachers. The supervision rate, or number of teacher per class, has still increased, despite the job cuts, as 136 positions would have needed to be cut to maintain it at the same level.
In the previous year, 90 jobs were cut, followed by an additional 38 cuts. The number of job losses in the Académie de Reims is higher than in other regions, reflecting a sharper decline in student numbers (2%) compared to the national average (1.4%).
Eurofound (2025), Académie de Reims, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 202250, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202250.