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.
American software producer Microsoft will reduce its workforce in Finland by 1,050 employees. Worldwide Microsoft will reduce its workforce with 18,000 job cuts of which 12,500 refer to former Nokia employees that were transferred when Microsoft bought Nokia.
Out of the 1,050 announced job cuts, 600 jobs will be lost at the Microsoft site in Oulu.
There is currently no information on the timeline of the restructuring.
Eurofound (2014), Microsoft, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 77331, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77331.