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.
Phone House, a telecommunications firm that retails mobile telephones and related services, has announced that it is to cut between 200 and 450 jobs at its headquarters in Münster. The announcement was made on 5th September 2007, but as of yet there is no detailed information on when the job losses will be implemented by. Phone House employs 700 at its Münster site.
Eurofound (2007), Phone House, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 65777, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65777.