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.
BMW has opened its new factory in Leipzig, where the new 3-series-model has gone into production in March 2005. BMW has invested €1.3 billion, €363 million were given as subsidies by the state of saxony. In the medium term production is to be increased from 160 to 650 cars each day, employment is to rise from 2,500 to a maximum of 5,500 in 2006.
Eurofound (2005), BMW, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 61609, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61609.