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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ASM International, which produces semiconductor equipment, announced on the 9th January 2009 that it will cut 200 jobs in Almere, in the Netherlands. The job cuts are due to a relocation of manufacturing and operational procurement activities from the Netherlands to Singapore. Following this relocation, only 350 jobs (out of a total of almost 12,000 worldwide) will remain in Europe.
Eurofound (2009), ASM Lithography (ASML), Relocation in Netherlands, factsheet number 68072, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68072.