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.
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According to Unions sources, Augé Découpage, producer of intefaces for electronic components, is to cut 96 jobs out of 367 at its Besançon site. The dismissals are a part of a restructuring plan, which follows the opening of a subsidiary in Malaysia. This reduction comes with the suppression of the thirteenth month and short-time unemployments measures. The worldwide turnover of Augé Découpage felt by about 25% in the first quarter of 2005 in comparaison to the same period in 2004.
Eurofound (2005), Augé Découpage, Offshoring/Delocalisation in France, factsheet number 61466, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61466.