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.
Since the acquisition of the German company Reemtsma by Imperial Tobacco, 1,500 jobs have been supressed worlwide last year, from which 470 have been lost in Germany. This was announced in the provisionnal annual report for the year 2003. The integration is happening successfully and quickly and the turnover grew from £8,28 billions to £11,41 billions.
Eurofound (2003), Imperial Tobacco, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 59714, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/59714.