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.
After the acquisitions of Powermerger Ruhrgas and Graninge, the german number one in electricity production intends to improve its profitability. Therefore, some 3,500 jobs will disappear by 2006, two thirds of which in Germany, the remaining in United Kingdom.
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