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.
Aventis, the Franco-German pharmaceutical group, could close half of its production sites worldwide. As of 2004, measures will be taken in order to stimulate company growth, cutting costs by 500 million euros per year till 2006. Slowing of sales in the US market and changing health policies in France and Germany explain the financial difficulties the group is facing.
Eurofound (2003), Aventis, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 60134, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60134.