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 25 March 2009, Stankiewicz announced it would cut 335 out of 1,300 jobs. The company produces acoustic devices for the automobile industry. Job cuts are part of the restructuring programme in place after the company filed for insolvency at the end of 2008. The insolvency practitioner stated that job cuts were necessary due the severe slump in sales.
Eurofound (2009), Stankiewicz, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 68612, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68612.