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.
Sicli, manufacturer of fire extinguishers based in Saint-Florentin (Yonne), has decided to outsource the production of the extighinshers' cylinders to China. This move results in the dismissal of 53 employees. 40 of them are interim workers. For the other 13, the company wishes to avoid compulsory redundancies.
Eurofound (2004), Sicli, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 60616, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60616.