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.
At the Siemens factory for transformers in Nuremberg 200 jobs shall be cut until the end of 2009. Originally all 800 jobs were to be lost, as Siemens was planning to close the factory. Workers' representatives conceded cuts in the christmas gratification and agreed to a more flexible work schedule in order to prevent off-shoring of Siemens' transformer production.
Eurofound (2005), Siemens, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61743, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61743.