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 3 April 2009, AE Group, the manufacturer of car parts, announced to cut 400 out of 1,400 jobs in Germany. Job cuts were considered necessary because short-time work and partial closure of sites were not sufficient to safeguard the future of the company after its move to file for insolvency. AE Group is to be restructured till August 2009.
Eurofound (2009), AE Group, Bankruptcy in Germany, factsheet number 68667, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68667.