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.
Paper producer Scheufelen reduces its personnel in order to face the competition in the sector, and lower demand. 110 jobs will be shed, bringing the total workforce to 730. This comes above the 140 already shed in Oberlenningen in 2003.
Eurofound (2004), Scheufelen, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 60980, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60980.