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.
Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick has announced that it will close and pull down its kaolin processing facility in Schnaittenbach, because there are significant deposits of kaolin underneath it. These deposits shall be extracted in the future, processing will be concentrated in a factory in neighbouring Hirschau. Management did not give a concrete time table, restructuring was announced to be carried out by 2008.
Eurofound (2005), Amberger Kaolinwerke Eduard Kick, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 61703, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61703.