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.
Siemens Building Technologies considers to reduce its workforce by some 3500, giving up or selling some of its activities. Among them, the 'Facility Management' division, employing 1500 persons, for which a preliminary agreement has been reached with the German Group Hochtief.
Eurofound (2003), Siemens Building Technologies, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 59404, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59404.