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 18 October 2010 truck manufacturer DAF announced it created 500 new jobs since last August. The jobs were and will be created in the Netherlands and Belgium. The firm has reintroduced evening shifts and shift work. The new employees have a fixed contract or are hired by a temp agency.
Eurofound (2010), DAF, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 71047, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71047.