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 supervisory board of hospital company Asclepios has announced a cost cutting programme for its newly acquired Hamburg operations. In 7 privatised hospitals, 1,000 jobs will be cut in an effort to become more efficient. Trade unions have been fiercely critical of the decision, whereas Hamburg's minister for health matters has declared that there will be no direct dismissals.
Eurofound (2005), Asclepios, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61763, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61763.