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.
Schmitz Cargobull, the leading European manufacturer of trailers and semi-trailers for commercial vehicles, announced the cutting of 411 jobs in Germany. The family-owned company employs a workforce of 5,360 (including temporary workers). Handelsblatt quotes the employers' association VDA saying that due to the recession orders of trucks have dropped by 60% and orders of trailers by 90%.
Eurofound (2009), Schmitz Cargobull, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 69517, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69517.