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.
Siemens is planning to cut 130 jobs in the manufacture of railway contact wires. 30 of the planned job cuts will come through partial retirement. The cuts are largely due to a lower level of orders from German rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
Eurofound (2005), Siemens, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61900, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61900.