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.
On 01 May 2006, Insolvency proceedings started against Heros, a German cash transport firm. Heros has been taken over by the US-firm Matlin Paterson that wants to cut down 1600 jobs. These 1600 employees shall be transferred to an employment-transfer-agency (Beschäftigungsgesellschaft). Heros has been renamed into Secur-Log.
Eurofound (2006), Heros, Secur-Log, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 63526, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63526.