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.
Stiebel Eltron, a producer of electrical appliances for households, will close its factory in Berlin-Tempelhof, thereby cutting around 100 jobs. The factory's size had fallen under a critical size, making production too costly, the management said. Employees will be offered jobs at another plant in Holzminden (Lower Saxony).
Eurofound (2005), Stiebel Eltron, Relocation in Germany, factsheet number 62503, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62503.