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.
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca filed a collective redundancy notification in March 2010 declaring it will dismiss 45 of its Belgian staff. The company announced a restructuring plan in January 2010 that aims to dismiss 8000 workers worldwide.
Eurofound (2010), AstraZeneca, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 70911, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70911.