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.
Health and social work group Zonnehuizen announced recently that it had reached an agreement with the unions to cut 243 jobs. The severe financial problems that the group has been facing due to lack of integration following a series of mergers and takovers are quoted as main reason behind the planned restructuring. Accordingly, the group incurred a loss of 16 million euros in 2010 and foresees a loss of 3 to 6 million euros in 2011.
Eurofound (2011), Zonnehuizen, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 72392, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72392.