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.
König & Bauer, a manufacturer of printing presses, is to cut 700 jobs. 650 employees at Radebeul in Saxony will be affected by direct dismissal. Management and works council agreed on the direct dismissal in trade off for a job guarantee covering the remaining 1400 Radebeul workers until the end of the business year 2011. There is no information on the remaining 50 job cuts. König & Bauer says it is solvent, but is currently hit by a sharp decrease of orders.
Eurofound (2009), Koenig & Bauer, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 68946, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68946.