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.
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The commercial court of Le Mans has decided the liquidation of the lighting manufacturer Silen that will lead to the closure of its twi sites of Saint-Calais (Sarthe) with 21 job cuts and Nevers (Nièvre) with 83 job cuts. A total of 104 employees will be dismissed if the management fails to find a company to take over the sites within a month. The site of Nevers was bought by Silen in 2015, which launched an employment safeguard plan to cut about 42 positions.
Eurofound (2016), Silen-Ledpower, Closure in France, factsheet number 88645, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88645.