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.
The German based software company SAP announced the expansion of its business and to create in 2005 some 3,500 new jobs worldwide. About 350 to 700 of these jobs would be created in Germany. The bulk of the job creation would be in the USA, India and China. The company would then employ more than 40,000 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2006), SAP, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 63384, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63384.