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.
For the first time in its history the Deutsche Post will proceed to direct dismissals, there is however a social plan for the personnel. In its subsidiary, Danzas Euronet, 140 drivers will loose their jobs at the beginning of 2004. This restructuring measure was made necessary by the loss of a big customer, Otto, but it also aims at reducing the overcapacity of the company.
Eurofound (2003), Danzas Euronet, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 59581, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59581.