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.
Nordmilch, a maker of dairy products, wants to reduce the number of its locations, i.e. factories, from 19 to 13. After having cut 900 jobs in 2004, this means the loss of another 1,600 jobs until the end of 2006.
Eurofound (2005), Nordmilch eG, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 62005, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62005.