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.
The insolvent producer of yarns TWD has been taken over by Daun & Cie. In TWD's factories in Deggendorf (lower Bavaria) and Glauchau (Saxony), 79 employees were layed-off in the process. One of TWD factories (Konz) was not included in the take-over and will be closed, leading to 160 job losses.
Eurofound (2005), TWD, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 61642, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61642.