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 firm that operates in the telecommunications sector, is to create 300 new jobs in Nordrhein-Westfalen. The firm currently has 180 outlets retailing mobile telephones in the region, and plans to increase this number to 500 by 2010. This expansion will lead to the creation of 300 new jobs. As of September 2007, there is no information on the dates when the new jobs will be created by.
Eurofound (2007), Phone House, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 65779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65779.