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.
French multinational food catering company Sodexo announced plans to cut around 700 posts until the end of 2013, out of a total of 420,000 employees worldwide. These job cuts come in the context of a cost saving plan to achieve a consolidated operating margin of 6.3% at the end of fiscal 2014-2015.
It is reported that Sodexo has already reduced its workforce by around 700 posts in 2012.
Eurofound (2012), Sodexo, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 74473, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74473.