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.
Debitel, a German provider of telecommunications, is to cut 400 jobs and create 600 by September 2009 following the acquisition of former competitor Talkline in early 2007. The firm currently employs 3100 and aims to streamline its organizational structures with the 400 job cuts. The 600 new jobs will be created at the firm’s subsidiary Dug. The company has stated that despite the job cuts it expects to have 3300 employees by 2008.
Eurofound (2007), Debitel, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 65818, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65818.