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.
Sony Ericsson has given notice to approximately 450 employees at their unit in Lund by mid 2010. The redundancies are part of the global savings programme presented last spring that affects 2000 employees. Furthermore, some hundred consultants are also affected as their contracts are terminated.
Eurofound (2009), Sony Ericsson, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 69998, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69998.