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.
Royal Dutch Shell said on 28 April 2004 it will cut up to 2,800 jobs as it relocates its global technology division. IT operations, now concentrated in the UK, the Netherlands and the US, are to be shifted to India or Malaysia, where Shell already employs about 1,000 people in a technology support centre. The company, did not disclose where the jobs would be cut, but it employs around 1,000 people in its British IT operations in the north-west and in London. The group expects the cuts to save $850 million (£475.6 million).
Eurofound (2004), Shell, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 60313, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60313.