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 British company Easyjet, the second-biggest provider of low-budget flights in Europe, has announced it would lay-off of up to 275 of its 800 employees at the Berlin airport (BER) in Germany. The company wants to reduce its Berlin-based airfleet from 18 to 11 airplanes due to rising airport fees and a worse than expected recovery after the Covid-19 crisis. While Easyjet announced it would now start talks with employees' representatives, the announcement was made amidst collective bargaining disputes with the United Public Services Union (Verdi) which has announced warning strikes.
Eurofound (2022), Easyjet , Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 106907, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106907.