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.
Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn plans to reduce its workforce by 480 units by 2007 in order to reduce its costs by € 20.3 million. There should be no direct dismissals. The work council already expressed its disappointment; during the last years some 1,000 jobs had already been shed to reduce the deficit from € 122 to 73 millions.
Eurofound (2004), Düsseldorfer Rheinbahn, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60598, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60598.