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.
Deutsche Stadte-Medien (DSM), the German outdoor advertising agency, now a subsidiary of Stroer Out-of-Home Media, is reported to have reached an agreement with its works council regarding plans to cut 400 out of a total of almost 900 jobs. Under the severance plan, 180 commercial employees are to be transferred to a qualification and employment company, while 220 employees are to be given the choice of either joining the company or continuing to work in their respective areas of activity as independent subcontractors.
Eurofound (2004), Deutsche Stadte-Medien, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60594.