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.
Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes has announced a major restructuring plan in order to improve its performance. The focus will be on realigning the business with changing market conditions. The proposed measures, which will be carried out during 2004-2006, involve the reduction of an equivalent of approximately 600 full-time jobs, among which 150 on the Sassenheim site in Netherlands. Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes intends to limit compulsory redundancies as much as possible.
Eurofound (2004), Car Refinishes, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 60546, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60546.