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.
Hearing aids manufacturer Widex is to cut 85 jobs. This amounts to 10% of its total workforce. The redundancies are to take place in production at the headquarters in Lynge and in the assembling site in Helsinge.
The redundancies are part of a costs-saving plan to increase competitiveness. As production is likely to be outsourced to Estonia in the next two years, more redundancies in Denmark can be expected in the future.
Widex had 850 employees in Denmark and around 3800 employees at global level.
Eurofound (2013), Widex, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 76169, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76169.