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.
In January German mail-order shopping company Otto Versand announced it was planning to create 100 new jobs in 2010 as it was predicting a´suceessful business year'. Otto Versand has been successful by expanding its online-marketing strategies, with most of its orders now coming online rather than from catalogues. Otto is currently still undergoing a major reorginsation launched a year ago (see related factsheet)
Eurofound (2010), Otto Versand, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 70443, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70443.