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.
Swedish mobile phone manufacturer Ericsson announced plans to cut 200 jobs at its R&D unit in Herzogenrath (nearby Aachen). Currently, 700 people are employed in the unit. The company blames the measure on technological progress in internet-based telephone appliances. The job cuts will be implemented by 2014.
Eurofound (2009), Ericsson, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 69671, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69671.