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.
The public hospital of the Parisian region, Assistance Public-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), plans to cut 779 non-medical jobs in 2019, in view of a 'still deteriorating financial situation'. The AP-HP is expected to record a loss of €137 million in 2019, compared to €181 million in 2018. out of the 779 job cuts, 240 positions will be cut in healthcare services. The number of temporary workers will also be reduced. In 2018, 405 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions have been cut.
Eurofound (2018), Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 96051, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96051.