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.
Strauss Innovation, a retailer of clothing and domestic ware, has announced plans to cut 235 out of 1,400 full-time jobs in Germany. The measure, which is meant to save costs and to implement lean management structures, will affect outlet centres, logistics and the company headquarter at Langenfeld, North-Rhine-Westfalia. Family-owned Strauss Innovation was sold to Swedish investor EQT in 2008.
Eurofound (2009), Strauss Innovation, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 68124, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68124.