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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Vodafone's chief executive has announced that the company would cut 1,700 jobs across shared service centres in Egypt, India and Romania this financial year. Job reductions represents about 8% of the workforce in that side of the business (22,000 positions). The cuts are part of a cost saving plan of about €8 billion. The chief executive stresses that more back-office functions are taken over by 'robots'. Vodafone employs about 105,000 employees worldwide.
Eurofound (2018), Vodafone, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 95551, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95551.