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.
Chemical giant BASF will cut 425 jobs out of 600 at Grenzach, Baden-Wuerttemberg, until December 2012. Management and Works Council agreed on a social plan in June 2011. Out of the 425 employees, 75 have already left the company. It is expected that 40 jobs will be cut until the end of 2011.
Eurofound (2011), BASF, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 72068, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72068.