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.
Hella-Werkzeugbau, an automotive supplier that produces forms for car lights, will cut up to 220 of its 270 jobs. Competion is said to be fierce in the sector, with Hella-Werkzeugbau losing several million euro in 2005. Nothing was disclosed as to how the job losses were to be managed.
Eurofound (2006), Hella Werkzeugbau, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 62861, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62861.