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.
A board member of Commerzbank, Germany's third largest bank, has announced that 300 jobs will be cut in the departments for small and medium companies (Mittelstandsgeschäft). A further 300 jobs are at stake in the sales and marketing departments. Commerzbank has set profit targets for that department. In case they are met, there will be no job cuts in sales and marketing.
Eurofound (2005), Commerzbank, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 61979, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61979.