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 17 July 2010, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the car manufacturer BMW is to create 350 jobs. The new employees are to work on the development of electric vehicles. The group employed a total of around 96,230 staff in 2009.
Eurofound (2010), BMW, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 70866, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70866.