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 22 November 2010, the daily Die Welt reported that the union IG Metall, i.e. the German Metal Workers' Union, will cut 125 jobs at its headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. Job cuts are to be implemented by natural fluctuation, such as (partial) retirements. The union announced to restructure its organisation and the staff reduction is to take place within the next four years.
Eurofound (2010), IG Metall, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 71286, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71286.