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.
Pfaff Industrie Maschinen, a German manufacturer of industrial sewing machines owned by German investor GCI BridgeCapital, is to cut 220 jobs out of 400 in Germany in Febuary 2009 because of insolvency. Workers will have the option to move to a job placement agency; there will be no direct dismissals. The company, which filed for insolvency in September 2008, keeps looking for a new investor.
Eurofound (2009), Pfaff Industrie Maschinen, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 68050, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68050.