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 7 April 2011, the Financial Times Deutschland reported that the German health insurer DAK has plans to cut 800 jobs in 2011. DAK currently employs a total of over 10,750 staff and has to deal with a decreasing membership.
Eurofound (2011), DAK, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 71850, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71850.