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.
Provider of mobile phone services Mobilcom will cut between 180 and 200 jobs in 2006. Costs shall consequently be lowered by 10 to 15%. A spokesman for Mobilcom said that prices for phone services had fallen and that therefore new customers had to be acquired. In order to finance the corresponding marketing drive, savings had to be made.
Eurofound (2006), Mobilcom, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62693, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62693.