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.
Berlin's municipal railway company S-Bahn Berlin, a daughter of Deutsche Bahn , plans to cut 800 jobs by 2010, in order to become more competitive. In 2013, Berlin's government wants to introduce competition on its municipal railway network. The job losses shall be managed in a socially acceptable manner, that is without direct dismissals.
Eurofound (2005), S-Bahn Berlin, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61637, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61637.