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.
British oil company British Petroleum (BP) will cut 600 jobs in Germany. The cuts are part of a company-wide restructuring effort that will cost up to 2,500 jobs at BP's european operations. A trade union official criticised the plans and said that the losses would weaken BP's market position.
Eurofound (2005), BP, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62500, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62500.