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 banking and financial group Deutsche Bank signed an agremment with the banking trade union FABI for a process of generational change. The agreement foresees 248 voluntary exits, all taking place thorugh an incentivised retirement scheme, and 110 new open-ended hirings- targeting first employees who already worked there with short-time contracts.
The agreement is part of the renewal of the Group's collective agreement, which also entails new welfare benefits (with the ticket restaurant increased up to 7€ per day by 2022), the re-insourcing of some, previously outsourced, IT activities, and a more flexible regulation of part-time, aiming at a better work-life balance.
Trade unions expressed their satisfaction for the agreement.
Eurofound (2020), Deutsche Bank, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 102943, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102943.