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, which employed in 2005 about 45,600 people in Germany, announced another cost-saving programme which will lead to the cut of about 2,000 of its current 94,000 jobs worldwide. According to a newspaper report "more than 300 jobs" will be cut in Germany.
Eurofound (2006), BASF, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 64382, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64382.