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.
The sale of the insolvent Peguform automotive moulder involves a cut of 700 jobs, as well as pay reductions and longer working hours without extra pay for those who remain. 500 out of the 1,600 jobs in Bötzingen would go along with another 200 at the other six German sites. Peguform employs 12,000 people worldwide at sites in Brazil, Germany, Mexico and Spain.
Eurofound (2004), Peguform, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60572, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60572.