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.
Facom, manufacturer of tools, will close two of its 16 European factories: Villeneuve-le-Roi, in France, employing 208, and Hoffenburg, in Germany, employing 73. Management said that the cost of the workforce in France and Germany was too high: 38 times more than China, and twice as much as the USA.
Eurofound (2004), Facom, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 60467, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60467.