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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The Dutch meat processing company Dumeco will cut up to 300 jobs through the closure of the production sites of Weert and Emmen. This measure is presented as a consequence of the acquisition of Hendrix Meat Group in the second half of 2004. This is part of a larger restructuring plan that should cost 530 jobs in total. Part of the employees will be proposed a new position in the group but there will be 3OO direct dismissals. A social plan will be negotiated with the unions.
Eurofound (2005), Dumeco, Merger/Acquisition in Netherlands, factsheet number 61494, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61494.