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.
Herlitz, a German stationery products company, will close its Berlin plant and relocate manufacturing to another German site, the company announced on 7 April 2006. 143 jobs will be cut. Up to 81 employees will be given the opportunity to work for an external service provider of Herlitz under the condition that they accept wage cuts.
Since 2004 the majority shareholder of the former family business is the world wide operating investor Advent International.
Eurofound (2006), Herlitz, Relocation in Germany, factsheet number 63309, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63309.