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 petrochimical group, ExxonMobil, announced a Europe-wide restructuring plan affecting 1537 jobs. The project aims to centralise the totality of the managerial teams in a single European centre, which will be based in a country at reduced social cost. In Europe, the group employs directly 24,000 persons on 29 units and owns 106,000 gas stations.
Eurofound (2003), ExxonMobil, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 60053, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60053.