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.
Goebel, the porcelain manufacturer plans to cut 150 jobs. Problems concern mainly the production of the well-known 'Hummel figures'. A relocation is not foreseen. Currently the enterprise employs some 840 workers. 150 jobs had already been cut since 2002.
Eurofound (2005), Goebel, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61198, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61198.