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.
Smart, a producer of small cars belonging to DaimlerChrysler, is to be reintegrated into the mother company in order to cut administration costs. The affected staff, close to 600, are to be transferred to other vacant positions within DaimlerChrysler.
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