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.
Volvo has announced the closure of its bus factory in Heilbronn. Volvo Heilbronn has produced 90 busses per year, fewer than the planned 300. Efforts to sell the factory proved unsuccesful. Trade union IG Metall said it was satisfied with the redundancy programme that foresees the possibility of transfers into a job creation company (Beschäftigungsgesellschaft).
Eurofound (2005), Volvo, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 61762, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61762.