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.
On 2 March 2009, the German car producer Volkswagen announced that it is to cut all 16,500 jobs for temporary agency workers worldwide. The job reduction is to be completed by the end of 2009. The job cuts are attributed to the drop in demand.
Eurofound (2009), Volkswagen, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 68465, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68465.