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.
Automotive supplier Eberspächer has announced a cost-cutting programme that foresees the built-up of more capacity in its factories in Eastern Europe, Asia and North America and a scaling back of its German operations. At the plant in Neunkirchen on the river Saar 100 jobs will be cut. There shall be no direct dismissals though.
Eurofound (2005), Eberspächer, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Germany, factsheet number 61736, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61736.