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 June 26, the board of the University Hospital of Caen (CHU) announced that it will begin a programme of job cuts whereby 200 jobs will be cut by the end of 2010 followed by 100 additional cuts in both 2011 and 2012. The hospital will not be using direct dismissals, but retiring employees will not be replaced. Unions have begun distributing leaflets to community members to express their disapproval.
Eurofound (2010), Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Caen, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 70915, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70915.