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.
Renault has relocated the production of Trafic from the Opel plant in Lutton (UK) and Nissan in Barcelona (Spain) to Sandouville. The aim is to save this plant, where production volumes have reduced from 105,000 units six years ago to only 25,000 cars in 2013. The group has invested €230 million in its plant in Sandouville, and intends to move its production from high-end vehicles to commercial ones by mid-2015 It is reported that in addition to the announced job creation plan, the company will call back 400 employees that were previously employed to other plants within the Renault group. In January 2013, Renault announced plans to cut about 7,500 jobs within the group in France. Renault–Nissan Alliance is a Franco-Japanese strategic partnership based in Amsterdam and founded in 1999.
Eurofound (2014), Renault, Reshoring in France, factsheet number 243, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/243.