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.
MD Papier in Dachau, a company belonging to Myllykoski Continental, has announced the loss of 95 jobs, 22 % of the workforce, at its paper factory. A company source said that the reason was in the continuing pressure on prices and margins: While variable costs have risen by 10 % since 2001, paper prices have gone down by 24 %.
Eurofound (2005), MD Papier, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61903, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61903.