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.
Metabo, a firm that manufactures electrical tools, is to close two sites in Meppen and Laichingen with the loss of approximately 500 jobs. The job losses will be implemented by the end of 2010. Metabo employs a total of 1600 within Germany.
Eurofound (2007), Metabo, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 65852, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65852.