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.
Merck, manufacturer of chemical and pharmaceutical products, intends to reduce its sales and distribution staff in Darmstadt by 100 employees by the end of 2010. The reduction is said to adapt the firm to the consequences that result from the reform in the health sector.
Eurofound (2006), Merck, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 64674, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64674.