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.
The state owned company Electrica, the biggest provider of electricity, initiated a voluntary redundancy programme for 1,725 employees. Each redundant employee will receive a compensatory payment of about 14,000 euros. The estimated turnover of the national company for 2008 is 1.7 billion euros and the present number of employees is 18,034.
Eurofound (2008), Electrica, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 67706, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67706.