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.
American consumer goods company Kimberley-Clark has announced the closure of its factory in Forchheim. Production of sanitary towels will cease in the middle of 2006. No announcement was made as to how the job losses will be managed.
Eurofound (2005), Kimberly-Clark, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 61991, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61991.