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.
In the aftermath of the European Union's Court of Justice decision to rule a German tax loophole illegal that allowed companies to avoid high taxes on cigarettes that smokers must assemble themselves, British-American Tobacco decided to stop manufacturing this type of cigarettes. The group's company Brinkmann announced to cut 242 jobs at its Bremen plant.
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