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.
Phone marketing company Walter-Telemedien wants to double its workforce in the German capital. Against the trend to offshoring call-centre activities to low wage countries, Walter wants to retain a strong base in German-speaking countries. Walter employs 4,500 people in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
Eurofound (2005), Walter-Telemedien, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 61901, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61901.