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.
According to information of the trade union VERDI, some 180 jobs will be shed on the 400 of the AT & T Telecommunication Group in Germany. This is part of a worldwide cost cutting programme announced in October 2004 that should lead to the suppression of 12,000 jobs of the 50,000 worldwide.
Eurofound (2004), AT&T, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60660, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60660.