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 20 February Dutch wholesale bank Kas Bank announced it will cut 100 out of 750 jobs. The restructuring is part of a cost cutting operation. One of the driving forces behind the step is persistently low interest rates. In March it will become clear which employees will be dismissed.
Eurofound (2014), Kas Bank, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 76648, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76648.