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.
Car dealer group Heister, headquartered in the city of Trier (West Germany), will cut employment by 261. Heister filed for insolvency recently and can only be revived through massive cuts. The remaining employees forego extra benefits in order to save their jobs. The affected employees will partly be transferred to a job-creation company.
Eurofound (2005), Heister, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62326, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62326.