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.
Tobacco manufacturer Philip Morris announced to shut down one of its three German manufacturing plants for cigarettes(Munich) in 2009. 400 workers will be dismissed. Philip Morris keeps 37% of the German cigarette market, yet declared the plant closure to be a consequence of a 32% decline of cigarette selling since 2002.
Eurofound (2006), Philip Morris, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 63755, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63755.