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 8 October 2010, the phone company O2 announced a plan to cut some 1,100 jobs in Germany. The dismissals are part of the company's restructuring programme, after having acquired another telecommunications firm Hansenet. Affected are sites all over Germany, i.e. in Verl, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig and Stuttgart. The integration of both companies is to be completed by 31 March 2011 and all departments will be reorganised. Already in summer 2010, O2 had announced to bundle its activities at four sites and sell three call centres.
Eurofound (2010), O2, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 71290, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71290.