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.
Bauknecht, producer of kitchen appliances, will cut 106 out of 650 jobs at its factory in Neunkirchen, Saarland. The production of dish washers in Neunkirchen was too expensive in comparison to its competitors, Bauknecht says, and will therefore be transferred to a factory in Poland.
Eurofound (2005), Bauknecht, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62420, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62420.