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.
Quelle, the subsidiary of the German company KarstadtQuelle announced on 1 December 2005 a new redundancy programme. Management planned 209 suppressions out of its 955 workers. This measures concern the two sites of Tourcoing (30 losses) and Orléans (170 losses). Quelle had already suppressed 45 jobs in 2004 folliwing a fall of its turnover.
Eurofound (2005), Quelle, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 62754, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62754.