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 2 November 2006, the chemical company BASF announced another cost-saving programm which will lead to the cut of about 2,000 of its current 94,000 jobs worldwide.
Job cuts will affect BASF subsidiaries in Germany, Spain, China and the USA.
Eurofound (2006), BASF, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 64380, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64380.