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.
On 17 May 2010 construction company Heddes announced it will scrap 70 jobs out of a total of 380. The dramatic drop in turnover in the construction sector casued the move. Procedures to organise the collective dismissal have already been initiated so the lay offs should follow shortly.
Eurofound (2010), Heddes, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 70738, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70738.