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.
Swedbank, a Swedish bank, has announced that it will reduce its workforce by 3600, with job losses occurring across the EU.
Swedbank has suffered after aggressively lending in the Baltic states, which are now in deep recessions. It has recorded losses of 182 million euros in the past year.
Eurofound (2009), Swedbank, Internal restructuring in European Union, factsheet number 69286, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69286.