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.
Ergo, the second largest insurer in Germany, subsidiary of the largely indebted Munich Re, will shed 1,500 jobs within one year in the framework of a cost-saving programme initiated in 2002. In April 2004, 800 job losses were already effective. Ergo still employs 31,500 people.
Eurofound (2004), Ergo, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60456, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60456.